фитиль

Inherited from Middle Russian фитиль, фетиль, ѳитиль, ѳетиль (fitilʹ, fetilʹ, fitilʹ, fetilʹ) (att. since 1610s in R. James' dictionary, also likely related pl. ветили in 1597), borrowed – probably in the context of firearms and artillery technology, where it displaced indigenous жагра (žagra, “tinder, especially a fungal one; match in a matchlock”) – from Ottoman Turkish فتیل (“wick; fuse”) (whence Turkish fitil) from Arabic فَتِيل (fatīl).

• IPA^(key): [fʲɪˈtʲilʲ]

фити́ль • (fitílʹ) m inan (genitive фитиля́, nominative plural фитили́, genitive plural фитиле́й, relational adjective фити́льный, diminutive фитилёк)

1. wick
2. fuse

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “фитиль”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “фитиль”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 315
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “жагра”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “фитиль”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
• Krylov, G. A. (2004) “фитиль”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Victory, →ISBN

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “фитиль”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.