فس

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

See فاس (“Fez”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛs/

Proper noun

فس • (Fes)

1. Fez (a city in Morocco), alternative form of فاس (Fas)

Descendants

• Turkish: Fes

Etymology 2

Named after Fez, Morocco, once the chief place of their manufacture, related to Etymology 1 above.

Noun

فس • (fes)

1. fez, tarboosh

Derived terms

• فسخانه (feshane, “fes manufactory”)
• فس بویسی (fes boyası, “madder”)
• فسلنمك (feslenmek, “to put on a fez”)
• فسسز (fessiz, “bare-headed; hatless”)

Descendants

• Turkish: fes

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “فس”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 3519