میزاب

See also: ميزاب

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِيزَاب (mīzāb), variant of مِرْزَاب (mirzāb, “gutter, downspout”).

Noun

میزاب • (mizab) (plural میازب (meyazib))

1. gutter, downspout, a spout by which rain runs from a roof

   Synonym: اولق (oluk)

Descendants

• Turkish: mizab

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mizab”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3245
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “میزاب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1256
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Colliquiae”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 202
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “میزاب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 5071
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “میزاب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2055