قلمتراش

Borrowed from Persian قلمتراش (qalam-tarâš), ultimately from قلم (kalem, “reed; reed pen”).

قلمتراش • (kalemtıraş)

1. penknife, a small knife for cutting the points of reed pens

   Synonym: گزلك (gizlik)

• قلمتراشجی (kalemtıraşcı, “maker or seller of penknives”)

• Turkish: kalemtıraş

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kalemtıraş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2354
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قلمتراش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 969
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scalpellum”, 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 1515
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قلمتراش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3752
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قلمتراش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1470

From قلم (qalam) +‎ تراش (tarâš).

قلمتراش • (qalam-tarâš)

1. penknife

• → Armenian: ղալամթրաշ (ġalamtʻraš), խալեմթրաշ (xalemtʻraš), ղըլըմթրաշ (ġələmtʻraš), կա̈լա̈մթրաշ (kälämtʻraš), խալէմթրաշ (xalēmtʻraš) — traditional orthography
• → Azerbaijani: qələmtəraş, qələmtaraş
• → Ottoman Turkish: قلمتراش (kalemtıraş, kalemtraş)
  • Turkish: kalemtıraş, kalemtraş

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “قلمتراش”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 986