فشك

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish فشك (fişek, “cartridge”).

Noun

فَشَك • (fašak) m (collective, singulative فَشَكَة f (fašaka))

1. cartridges

Declension

Declension of noun فَشَك (fašak)

Collective	basic collective triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	فَشَك fašak	الْفَشَك al-fašak	فَشَك fašak
Nominative	فَشَكٌ fašakun	الْفَشَكُ al-fašaku	فَشَكُ fašaku
Accusative	فَشَكًا fašakan	الْفَشَكَ al-fašaka	فَشَكَ fašaka
Genitive	فَشَكٍ fašakin	الْفَشَكِ al-fašaki	فَشَكِ fašaki
Singulative	singulative triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	فَشَكَة fašaka	الْفَشَكَة al-fašaka	فَشَكَة fašakat
Nominative	فَشَكَةٌ fašakatun	الْفَشَكَةُ al-fašakatu	فَشَكَةُ fašakatu
Accusative	فَشَكَةً fašakatan	الْفَشَكَةَ al-fašakata	فَشَكَةَ fašakata
Genitive	فَشَكَةٍ fašakatin	الْفَشَكَةِ al-fašakati	فَشَكَةِ fašakati
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	فَشَكَتَيْن fašakatayn	الْفَشَكَتَيْن al-fašakatayn	فَشَكَتَيْ fašakatay
Nominative	فَشَكَتَانِ fašakatāni	الْفَشَكَتَانِ al-fašakatāni	فَشَكَتَا fašakatā
Accusative	فَشَكَتَيْنِ fašakatayni	الْفَشَكَتَيْنِ al-fašakatayni	فَشَكَتَيْ fašakatay
Genitive	فَشَكَتَيْنِ fašakatayni	الْفَشَكَتَيْنِ al-fašakatayni	فَشَكَتَيْ fašakatay
Paucal (3-10)	sound feminine paucal
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	فَشَكَات fašakāt	الْفَشَكَات al-fašakāt	فَشَكَات fašakāt
Nominative	فَشَكَاتٌ fašakātun	الْفَشَكَاتُ al-fašakātu	فَشَكَاتُ fašakātu
Accusative	فَشَكَاتٍ fašakātin	الْفَشَكَاتِ al-fašakāti	فَشَكَاتِ fašakāti
Genitive	فَشَكَاتٍ fašakātin	الْفَشَكَاتِ al-fašakāti	فَشَكَاتِ fašakāti

References

• Procházka, Stephan (2009) “Turkish Loanwords”, in Versteegh, Kees, editor, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, volume 4, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 591
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “فشك”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[1] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 964–965

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• فشنك (fişenk)

Etymology

From Persian فشنگ (fešang); see it for more.

Noun

فشك • (fişek)

1. cartridge for small arms
2. any kind of firework, such as squibs, rockets and firecrackers

Descendants

• Turkish: fişek
• Crimean Tatar: fişenk
• → Albanian: fishek
• → Arabic: فَشَك (fašak)
• → Armenian: ֆիշենկ (fišenk), ֆշանգ (fšang), ֆշանք (fšankʻ), փշանգ (pʻšang)
• → Bulgarian: фише́к (fišék)
• → Greek: φυσέκι (fyséki), φισέκι (fiséki)
• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: fîşek

  → Central Kurdish: فیشەک (fîşek)

• → Macedonian: фишек (fišek)
• → Romanian: fișic
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: фѝшек

  Latin script: fìšek

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فشك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 900
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “فشك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 3523–3524
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “fişek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فشك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1386