مابلاق

Ottoman Turkish

مابلاقلر

Etymology

From Arabic مَبْلَع (mablaʕ).

Noun

مابلاق • (mablak)

1. spatula, flipper, a kitchen utensil used for turning, lifting, or stirring food
2. putty knife, a tool used by painters, plasterers, and carpenters to spread putty

Descendants

• Turkish: mablak
• → Armenian: մապլախ (maplax)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mablak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2997
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مابلاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1088
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مابلاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1651