cleaver (squarish, heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones, etc) · fascine knife (large, heavy knife or short sword used by 17th- to 19th-century artillery and infantry soldiers as a sidearm and a tool for cutting fascines)
çekim: çoğul tasaki · tamlayan tasaka
köken: Borrowed from Old Czech tesák, from Proto-Slavic *tesakъ. Doublet of ciesak (“adze”) and ciosak (“stonemason's pickaxe”).
Inherited from Old Ruthenian тесакъ (tesak), from Proto-Slavic *tesakъ. By surface analysis, теса́ти (tesáty) + -ак (-ak). Cognate with Czech tesák and Polish ciesak, ciosak.