پشتخته

Ottoman Turkish

پشتخته

Alternative forms

• փէշթախթա (peştahta), փիշթախթէ (piştahte) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian پیشْتَخْتَه (pēštaxta).

Noun

پشتخته • (peştahta) (definite accusative پشتخته‌یی (peştahtayı), plural پشتخته‌لر (peştahtalar))

1. counter, a table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted
2. mantelshelf, mantelpiece, a wooden or marble shelf that is affixed to the wall above a fireplace

Descendants

• Turkish: peştahta
• → Albanian: peshtaf
• → Armenian: փեշթախթա (pʻeštʻaxtʻa)
• → Georgian: ფიშტახტი (pišṭaxṭi)
• → Greek: μπεζαχτάς (bezachtás)
• → Serbo-Croatian: pèštahta, пѐштахта

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “peştahta”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3837
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “پشتخته”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 119a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پشتخته”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 322
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scriptorium”, 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 1523
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پشتخته”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 828
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پشتخته”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 449