ترکش

From earlier تیرکش (tirkaš, “quiver; arrowslit”), from تیر (tir, “arrow”) +‎ کش (kaš, “container”).

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ترکش • (tarkaš) (plural ترکش‌ها (tarkaš-hâ))

1. quiver

• (quiver): تیردان (tirdân), شگا (šagâ), جعبه (ja'be)

• → Arabic: تَرْكَاش (tarkāš)
  • → Byzantine Greek: ταρκάσιον (tarkásion)
    • → Italian: turcasso, carcasso
    • → Old French: carcois, carquais, tarchais, tarquait
      • → French: carquois
        • → Catalan: carcaix
        • → Spanish: carcaj, carcax, carcaza
      • → Galician: carcás, carcán
      • → Portuguese: carcás
• → Georgian: ქარქაში (karkaši)
• → Gujarati: તરકશ (tarkaś)
• → Malay: tarkas
  • Indonesian: tarkas
• → Middle Armenian: թարքաշ (tʻarkʻaš)
• → Ottoman Turkish: تركش (terkeş)

From تَرَک (tarak-, “to explode”) +‎ ـش (-eš, “-ment, -tion”).

ترکش • (tarkeš) (plural ترکش‌ها (tarkeš-hâ))

1. explosion
2. shrapnel, fragment (of an artillery shell, bomb, grenade, etc.)

• (explosion): انفجار (enfejâr)

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “ترکش”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press