فسقیه

Ottoman Turkish

فسقیه

Etymology

Pseudo-Arabism derived from the onomatopoeic word فش (fış, “fizzing or hissing sound”) + ـِيَّة (-iyya).

Noun

فسقیه • (fıskiye)

1. jet d'eau, a stream of water spouting from a fountain or pipe
2. jet d'eau, the fountain or pipe from which such a stream issues

Descendants

• Turkish: fıskiye

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “fıskiye”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1583
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فسقیه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 899
• Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “fountain”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 205a
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “fıskiye”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فسقیه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1384