قاصق بتی
Ottoman Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom قاصق (kasık, “groin”) + بت (bit, “louse”).
Noun
edit- crab louse, any parasitic insect that lives amongst the pubic hairs (Pthirus pubis)
Descendants
edit- Turkish: kasık biti
Further reading
edit- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kasık biti”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2456
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قاصق بتی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 350b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قاصق بتی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 929
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pediculus inguinalis”, 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 1260
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قاصق بتی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3583
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قاصق بتی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1417