فیل دیشی

Ottoman Turkish

فیل دیشی

Etymology

From فیل (fil, “elephant”) + دیش (diş, “tooth”).

Noun

فیل دیشی • (fil dişi)

1. elephant's tusk, one of a pair of elongated, pointed teeth that extend outside its mouth
2. ivory, the hard white form of dentin which forms the tusks of elephants and other animals

   Synonym: عاج (ʿac)

Descendants

• Turkish: fildişi
• → Albanian: fildish
• → Armenian: ֆիլտիշի (filtiši)
• → Greek: φίλντισι (fílntisi)
• → Romanian: fildeș
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: фѝлдиш

  Latin script: fìldiš

Adjective

فیل دیشی • (fil dişi)

1. ivory (made in ivory)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “fildişi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1591
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “فیل دیشی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 347b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 916f.
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ebur”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 442
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “فیل دیشی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3567
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “fildişi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1403