شیش

Gilaki

Numeral

شیش (šiš)

1. six

Mazanderani

Noun

شیش (šiš)

1. twig, switch

   انار شیش

   anār šiš

   Pomegranate twig or switch

Ottoman Turkish

شیشلر

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sīĺ (“spit, pointed stick or pole”); cognate with Azerbaijani şiş, Bashkir шеш (şeş), Kyrgyz шиш (şiş), Southern Altai тиш (tiš), Turkmen çiş and Tuvan шиш (şiş).

Noun

شیش • (şiş) (definite accusative شیشی (şişi), plural شیشلر (şişler))

1. spit, skewer, broach, any long pin used to secure food during cooking

   Synonym: سیخ (sih)

2. rapier, a sword with a straight, and sharply pointed two-edged long blade
3. knitting needle, a long, thin, pointed rod, used in pairs to knit yarn

Derived terms

• شیشلتمك (şişletmek, “to be spitted, skewered”)
• شیشلمك (şişlemek, “to spit, skewer”)
• شیشلنمك (şişlenmek, “to become a spit, skewer”)
• شیشلو (şişli, “provided with a spit”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: şiş
• → Armenian: շիշ (šiš)
• → Aromanian: shish
• → Bulgarian: шиш (šiš)
• → Macedonian: шиш (šiš)
• → Romanian: șiș
• → Serbo-Croatian: ши̏ш／šȉš

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şiş2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4493
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “شیش”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 292b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شیش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 740
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Veru”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1743
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شیش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2899
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şiş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شیش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1147

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sīĺč (“swelling, tumor”); cognate with Azerbaijani şiş, Bashkir шеш (şeş), Khakas сіс (sìs), Old Uyghur [script needed] (šiš) and Uzbek shish.

Noun

شیش • (şiş) (definite accusative شیشی (şişi), plural شیشلر (şişler))

1. (oncology) tumor, neoplasm, an abnormal and excessive growth or swelling of tissue

   Synonyms: ورم (verem), یومرو (yumru)

Adjective

شیش • (şiş)

1. swollen, swelled, puffy, protuberant or abnormally distended, as by injury or disease
2. congested, clogged, blocked, obstructed, so that through movement or flow is prevented

Descendants

• Turkish: şiş

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şiş2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4493
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “شیش”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[6], Vienna: F. Beck, page 292b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شیش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[7], Constantinople: Mihran, page 741
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tumor”, 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^[8], Vienna, column 1700
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شیش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[9], Vienna, column 2899
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şiş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شیش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[10], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1147

Persian

Pronunciation

• • (Tehrani) IPA^(key): [ʃiːʃ]

Readings
Iranian reading?	šiš

Proper noun

شیش • (šiš)

1. (colloquial, Tehrani) Spoken form of شش (šeš).

Ushojo

Noun

شیش (šīš)

1. breath

   Synonym: سآ (sà)