شمشك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish سوكوشاك (sügüşek/süŋüşek), سوكوشاك (sügşek/süŋşek), which is believed to derive from Proto-Turkic *süŋüĺek, a development from *süŋgü (“spear”); for the semantic development spear → lightning, compare Latin sagitta (“arrow”) and the Italian descendant saetta (“lightning”).

Noun

شمشك • (şimşek) (plural شمشكلر (şimşekler))

1. lightning, the flash of light produced by a thunderbolt

   Synonyms: برق (berk), صاعقه (sa'ika)

Derived terms

• شمشك آغاجی (şimşek ağacı, “spiny broom”)
• شمشك چاقمق (şimşek çakmak, “to glitter, flash”)
• شمشكلمك (şimşeklemek, “to glitter, flash”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: şimşek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şimşek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4485
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شمشك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 734
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fulmen”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 627
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شمشك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2860
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şimşek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شمشك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1136