صقال

Ottoman Turkish

صقال

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sakal (“beard”); cognate with Azerbaijani saqqal, Bashkir һаҡал (haqal), Chuvash сухал (suh̬al), Kazakh сақал (saqal), Kyrgyz сакал (sakal), Turkmen sakgal, Uyghur ساقال (saqal) and Uzbek soqol.

Noun

صقال • (sakal)

1. beard, facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck

   Synonym: ریش (riş)

2. whisker, that part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face
3. (nautical) dolphin striker under the end of a ship's bowsprit

Derived terms

• آق صقال (ak sakal, “grey beard”)
• تكه صقالی (teke sakalı, “goat's-beard”)
• صقال براقمق (sakal bırakmak, “to let the beard grow”)
• صقاللو (sakallı, “bearded”)
• طوپ صقال (top sakal, “short and thick beard”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: sakal
• → Armenian: սախալ (saxal)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sakal”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4025
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “صقال”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 301a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صقال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 763
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Barba”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 114
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صقال”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 2971–2972
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sakal”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صقال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1180