مصباح

Tool noun from the root ص ب ح‎ (ṣ-b-ḥ); compare صَبْح‎ (ṣabḥ, “dawn”).

• IPA^(key): /misˤ.baːħ/

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مِصْبَاح • (miṣbāḥ) m (plural مَصَابِيح‎ (maṣābīḥ))

1. lamp
   • 7th century CE, The Quran‎:

     ‏مَثَلُ نُورِهِ كَمِشْكَاةٍ فِيهَا مِصْبَاحٌ‎‎

     maṯalu nūrihi kamiškātin fīhā miṣbāḥun

     The likeness of his light is like a niche with a lamp in it.

2. headlight (of a car)

• Maltese: musbieħ
• → Persian: مصباح‎ (mesbâh) (obsolete)

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “صبح”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Borrowed from Arabic مِصْبَاح‎ (miṣbāḥ, “lamp, light”).

مصباح • (mısbah) (plural مصابیح‎)

1. lamp, especially an oil lamp

   Synonyms: چراغ‎ (çirag), سراج‎ (sirac), قندیل‎ (kandil), لامپه‎ (lampa)

2. sort of large bowl for wine

• Turkish: mısbah

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “mısbah”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3204
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “مصباح”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1178
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Lucerna”, 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, Vienna, column 975
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “مصباح”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4696
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مصباح”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1877