وبیل

See also: وبيل

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَبِيل (wabīl, “beetle, batlet”).

Noun

وبیل • (vebil)

1. kind of heavy stick used in eastern Christian churches to strike the board which is used for a bell

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “وبیل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 5332
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “وبیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2128