سبله

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic سَبَلَة (sabala, “moustache”); compare Persian سبیل (sebil, “moustache”).

Noun

سبله • (sebele) (plural سبال)

  1. moustache, a growth of facial hair over the upper lip
    Synonyms: بیق (bıyık), شارب (şarib)

Further reading
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mystax”, 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 1114
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سبله”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 2543–2544
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سبله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1036
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