مسواك
See also: مسواک
Arabic
Etymology
Tool noun
Noun
مِسْوَاك • (miswāk) m (plural مَسَاوِيك (masāwīk))
- synonym of سِوَاك (siwāk)
Declension
| singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | مِسْوَاك miswāk |
الْمِسْوَاك al-miswāk |
مِسْوَاك miswāk |
| nominative | مِسْوَاكٌ miswākun |
الْمِسْوَاكُ al-miswāku |
مِسْوَاكُ miswāku |
| accusative | مِسْوَاكًا miswākan |
الْمِسْوَاكَ al-miswāka |
مِسْوَاكَ miswāka |
| genitive | مِسْوَاكٍ miswākin |
الْمِسْوَاكِ al-miswāki |
مِسْوَاكِ miswāki |
| dual | indefinite | definite | construct |
| informal | مِسْوَاكَيْن miswākayn |
الْمِسْوَاكَيْن al-miswākayn |
مِسْوَاكَيْ miswākay |
| nominative | مِسْوَاكَانِ miswākāni |
الْمِسْوَاكَانِ al-miswākāni |
مِسْوَاكَا miswākā |
| accusative | مِسْوَاكَيْنِ miswākayni |
الْمِسْوَاكَيْنِ al-miswākayni |
مِسْوَاكَيْ miswākay |
| genitive | مِسْوَاكَيْنِ miswākayni |
الْمِسْوَاكَيْنِ al-miswākayni |
مِسْوَاكَيْ miswākay |
| plural | basic broken plural diptote | ||
| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | مَسَاوِيك masāwīk |
الْمَسَاوِيك al-masāwīk |
مَسَاوِيك masāwīk |
| nominative | مَسَاوِيكُ masāwīku |
الْمَسَاوِيكُ al-masāwīku |
مَسَاوِيكُ masāwīku |
| accusative | مَسَاوِيكَ masāwīka |
الْمَسَاوِيكَ al-masāwīka |
مَسَاوِيكَ masāwīka |
| genitive | مَسَاوِيكَ masāwīka |
الْمَسَاوِيكِ al-masāwīki |
مَسَاوِيكِ masāwīki |
Descendants
- → Bengali: মেসওয়াক (meśẇak)
- → English: miswak
- → Ottoman Turkish: مسواك (misvak)
- Turkish: misvak
- → Persian: مسواک (mesvâk)
- → Swahili: mswaki
- → Uyghur: مىسۋاك (miswak)
- → Uzbek: misvok
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مِسْوَاك (miswāk, “miswak, chewstick”).
Noun
مسواك • (misvâk) (definite accusative مسواكی (misvâğı), plural مساویك (mesâvik))
- miswak, a chewstick used particularly by Muslims for cleaning the teeth, made from twigs of trees of species Salvadora persica
Derived terms
- مسواك آغاجی (misvâk ağacı, “toothbrush tree”)
Descendants
- Turkish: misvak
Further reading
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- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “مسواك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 762
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “misvak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3241
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “misvâk”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 780
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مسواك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1169
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Dentifricium”, 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 352
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مسواك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 4661
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مسواك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1859