موصلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Unknown. According to Tietze, together with the variant مصلاق (maslak) borrowed from Arabic مَسْلَك (maslak, “road, path”). Stachowski derives from the related Arabic مَسْلُوك (maslūk), the passive participle of سَلَكَ (salaka, “to follow a road”). Alternatively, perhaps belongs with the dialectal family of words borrowed from Armenian մսուր(ք) (msur(kʻ), “manger”): Turkish musluk, müslük, musul, müsürlük, musurluk, musur etc. designating a manger and water trough; for these see Bläsing and Dankoff.

Noun

موصلق • (musluk)

  1. tap, faucet, spigot, a device used to dispense liquids

Derived terms

  • موصلقلو (musluklu, “furnished with a tap”)
  • هوا موصلقی (hava musluğu, “gas tap”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: musluk
  • → Albanian: muslluk
  • → Armenian: մուսլուխ (muslux), մուսլուղ (musluġ)
  • → Bulgarian: муслу́к (muslúk)
  • → Crimean Tatar: musluq
  • → Georgian: მუსლუღი (musluɣi)
  • → Greek: μουσλούκι (mousloúki)
  • → Laz: მუსლუღი (musluği)

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