فسكت

Ottoman Turkish

فسكت

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fischietto (“whistle”), a derivation from the verb fischiare (“to whistle”).

Noun

فسكت • (fisket)

1. (nautical) boatswain's pipe, a whistle used by boatswain's mates to pipe orders throughout a ship

Descendants

• Turkish: fisket

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “fisket”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1599
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فسكت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 899
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فسكت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1385