مگس

مَگَس (mağas or məgəs) (definite accusative مَگَسی or مَگَسؽ, plural مَگَسلَر or مَگَسلار)

1. Arabic spelling of mağas, məgəs (“fly”)

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (mks /⁠magas⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *makácaH, ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mákš (“fly”). Compare Sanskrit मशक (maśaka).

مگس • (magas) (plural مگس‌ها (magas-hâ))

1. fly (insect)
   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 190:

     لب لعلت عجب از عین نزاکت شکریست
     که کرانی بود از سایه بال مگسش

     lab-i la'lat ajab az ayn-i nazākat-i šakarī-st
     ki karānē buwad az sāya-yi bāl-i magasaš

     Strange that your ruby lips are from the essence of sugar's tenderness,
     For one side of it is from the shadow of the fly's wings [i.e. it is very small].

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

• → Central Kurdish: مەگەز (megez)
• → Khalaj: mağas
• → Ottoman Turkish: مگس (meges)
  • Turkish: meges