منشب

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Ultimately from the Arabic root ن ش ب (n-š-b), related to sticking, entanglement.

Noun

منشب • (minşeb) (plural مناشب (menaşib))

1. (botany) crampon, an aerial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy

Descendants

• Turkish: minşeb

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “minşeb”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3233
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “منشب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1233
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “منشب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 4962