پسك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bïńĺ(ïk) (“cat”); cognate with Azerbaijani pişik, Bashkir бесәй (besəy), Karakalpak pıshıq, Kazakh мысық (mysyq), Kyrgyz мышык (mışık), Tatar песи (pesi), Turkmen pişik, Uyghur مۈشۈك (müshük) and Uzbek mushuk.

Noun

پسك • (pisik)

cat, a common house pet (Felis catus)
Synonyms: قط (kitt), كدی (kedi), گربه (gürbe), هر (hirr)

Derived terms

ابه پسكی (ebe pisiği, “awny ear of some grasses”)
پسك اوتی (pisik otu, “catnip”)

Descendants

Turkish: pisik
→ Armenian: փիսիկ (pʻisik)
→ Cappadocian Greek: πισίκα (pisíka)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pisik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3862
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پسك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 322
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پسك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1191

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