مثقب

Arabic

Alternative forms

• مِثْقَاب (miṯqāb)

Etymology

Tool noun from the verb ثَقَبَ (ṯaqaba, “to pierce”). From the root ث ق ب (ṯ-q-b).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miθ.qab/

Noun

مِثْقَب • (miṯqab) m (plural مَثَاقِب (maṯāqib))

1. drill

Declension

Declension of noun مِثْقَب (miṯqab)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مِثْقَب miṯqab	الْمِثْقَب al-miṯqab	مِثْقَب miṯqab
Nominative	مِثْقَبٌ miṯqabun	الْمِثْقَبُ al-miṯqabu	مِثْقَبُ miṯqabu
Accusative	مِثْقَبًا miṯqaban	الْمِثْقَبَ al-miṯqaba	مِثْقَبَ miṯqaba
Genitive	مِثْقَبٍ miṯqabin	الْمِثْقَبِ al-miṯqabi	مِثْقَبِ miṯqabi
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مِثْقَبَيْن miṯqabayn	الْمِثْقَبَيْن al-miṯqabayn	مِثْقَبَيْ miṯqabay
Nominative	مِثْقَبَانِ miṯqabāni	الْمِثْقَبَانِ al-miṯqabāni	مِثْقَبَا miṯqabā
Accusative	مِثْقَبَيْنِ miṯqabayni	الْمِثْقَبَيْنِ al-miṯqabayni	مِثْقَبَيْ miṯqabay
Genitive	مِثْقَبَيْنِ miṯqabayni	الْمِثْقَبَيْنِ al-miṯqabayni	مِثْقَبَيْ miṯqabay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَثَاقِب maṯāqib	الْمَثَاقِب al-maṯāqib	مَثَاقِب maṯāqib
Nominative	مَثَاقِبُ maṯāqibu	الْمَثَاقِبُ al-maṯāqibu	مَثَاقِبُ maṯāqibu
Accusative	مَثَاقِبَ maṯāqiba	الْمَثَاقِبَ al-maṯāqiba	مَثَاقِبَ maṯāqiba
Genitive	مَثَاقِبَ maṯāqiba	الْمَثَاقِبِ al-maṯāqibi	مَثَاقِبِ maṯāqibi

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: مثقب (miskab)
  • Turkish: matkap

References

• “مثقب” in Almaany
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “مثقب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[1], London: Williams & Norgate

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِثْقَب (miṯqab, “drill”), tool noun from the verb ثَقَبَ (ṯaqaba, “to pierce”).

Noun

مثقب • (miskab) (plural مثاقب (mesakib))

1. borer, drill, any instrument used for drilling

   Synonyms: برمه (berme), بورغو (burgu), پرماه (permah)

Descendants

• Turkish: matkap

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “matkap”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3080
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “miskab”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[2] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 780
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مثقب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1119
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Terebra”, 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^[4], Vienna, column 1662
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مثقب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 4377
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مثقب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1742