زبقین

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • صاپقین (sapqın), سپقین (sıpkın)

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *sap- (“to thread a needle, needle”).[1] Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (sapɣun), [script needed] (sıpɣun, “short spear”), etc.

Noun

زبقین • (zıbkın)

  1. spear
  2. harpoon

Descendants

  • Turkish: zıpkın

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sạp-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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