فسكت

Ottoman Turkish

فسكت

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fischietto (“whistle”), a derivation from the verb fischiare (“to whistle”).

Noun

فسكت • (fisket)

(nautical) boatswain's pipe, a whistle used by boatswain's mates to pipe orders throughout a ship

Descendants

Turkish: fisket

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “fisket”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1599
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فسكت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 899
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فسكت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1385

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