بیق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bïdïk (“moustache”); cognate with Azerbaijani bığ, Karakhanid بِذِقْ (bïδïq), Kazakh миық (miyq), Kyrgyz мыйык (mıyık), Tatar мыек (mıyek), Crimean Tatar mıyıq and Kumyk мыйыкъ (mıyıq).

Noun

بیق • (bıyık)

1. moustache, a growth of facial hair over the upper lip

   Synonyms: سبله (sebele), شارب (şarib)

2. whisker, the long and stiff hairs about the mouth in some animals
3. (nautical) the yard that carries the spritsail

Derived terms

• بیقلو (bıyıklı, “moustached”)

Descendants

• Turkish: bıyık
• → Laz: ბუჲუღი (buyuği)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بیق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎ (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 302
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Mystax”, 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, Vienna, column 1114
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “بیق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 999–1000
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “bıyık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بیق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 423