صوساق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• سوسق (susak), صوصق (susak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *susgak (“scoop, ladle”), from *sus- (“to scoop”); cognate with Turkmen susmak, but compare Khakas сусху (susxu), Kyrgyz сузгу (suzgu), Southern Altai суску (susku) and Tatar соскы (soskı).

Noun

صوساق • (susak)

1. wooden ladle or scoop with a handle

   Synonym: چمچه (çemçe)

2. pail, a wooden vessel for carrying milk

Descendants

• Turkish: susak
• → Armenian: սուսախ (susax)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “susak2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4361
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cochlear”, 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^[1], Vienna, column 194
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صوساق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 2711
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “susak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صوساق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1191