دشنه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دشنه (dašna, “dagger, poniard”), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (dšnk' /⁠dašnag⁠/, “right hand; dagger”).

Noun

دشنه • (deşne) (definite accusative دشنه‌یی (deşneyi), plural دشنه‌لر (deşneler))

1. dagger, poniard, a stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade

   Synonym: خنجر (hancar, hancer)

Descendants

• Turkish: deşne

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “deşne”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1183
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “deşne”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 213
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pugio”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1401
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دشنه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2086
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دشنه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 904

Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (dšnk' /⁠dašnag⁠/, “right hand; dagger”), from [Book Pahlavi needed] (dšn' /⁠dašn⁠/, “right hand”) + [Book Pahlavi needed] (-k' /⁠-ag⁠/). Compare the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian դաշնակ (dašnak), դաշոյն (dašoyn), Classical Syriac ܕܫܢܓ (dašnag, “two-edged dagger”), Arabic دشنج (dašnaj, “dagger”), Georgian დაშნა (dašna, “sword”).

Noun

دشنه • (dešne, dašne)

1. dagger, poniard
2. sword, scimitar
3. narrow knife-blade

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “دشنه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “dašnag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 25

Etymology 2

Noun

دشنه • (došna)

1. (Neyshaburi) last night