ترکش

From earlier تیرکش (tirkaš, “quiver; arrowslit”), from تیر (tir, “arrow”) +‎ کش (kaš, “container”).

ترکش • (tarkaš) (plural ترکش‌ها)

1. quiver

   Synonyms: تیردان (tirdân), شگا (šagâ), جعبه (ja'be)

• → Arabic: تَرْكَاش (tarkāš)
• → Byzantine Greek: ταρκάσιον (tarkásion)
  • → Italian: turcasso, carcasso
  • → Old French: carcois, carquais, tarchais, tarquait
    • → French: carquois
      • → Catalan: carcaix
      • → Spanish: carcaj, carcax, carcaza
    • → Galician: carcás, carcán
    • → Portuguese: carcás
• → Georgian: ქარქაში (karkaši)
• → Gujarati: તરકશ (tarkaś)
• → Malay: tarkas
  • Indonesian: tarkas
• → Middle Armenian: թարքաշ (tʻarkʻaš)
• → Ottoman Turkish: تركش (terkeş)

From تَرَک (tarak-, “to explode”) +‎ ـش (-eš, “-ment, -tion”).

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ترکش • (tarkeš) (plural ترکش‌ها)

1. explosion

   Synonym: انفجار (enfejâr)

2. shrapnel, fragment (of an artillery shell, bomb, grenade, etc.)

   هنگامی که یک خمپاره به زمین اصابت می‌کند، صدها تركش بزرگ و کوچک آن قارچ‌مانند در فضا پراکنده می‌شود، و در خلئی که از موج انفجار آن ایجاد می‌گردد، فولاد نیز همچون مقوایی نرم مچاله می‌شود.

   hangāmē ki yak xumpāra ba zamīn isābat mēkunad, sad-hā tarkiš-i buzurg u kōčak-i ān qārč-mānand dar fazā parākanda mēšawad, wa dar xala'ē ki az mawj-i infijār-i ān ījād mēgardad, fōlād nēz hamčūn muqawwāyē narm mučāla mēšawad.

   When a mortar hits the ground, hundreds of its large and small fragments are spread around in a mushroom-like shape, and in the vacuum created by its blast wave even steel crumples like a soft cardboard.

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “ترکش”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press