What does "kashak" or "keshek" mean in Arabic? ?

Question

The Arab traveler Al-Massoudi used the term to describe the people of the NW Caucasus region. Does anyone know what it means?

Al-Massoudi traveled to the north west Caucasus in the tenth century A.D.

Answer 1

يعنى سوبر مركت مصغر  

Answer 2

if u write the whole sentence, i might help u out.

but right now id does not mean any thing to me

Answer 3

He may have been transliterating from Russion or one of the other local languages, and was perhaps referring to what we in English call the Cossacks.  These are an ethnic people who live in the Steppes, a region of Eastern Europe and Asia.

English -- Cossack; Russian --  ÃÂšÃÂ°ÃÂ·ÃÂ°ÃŒÂÃÂºÃÂ¸ÃŒÂ, Kazaki; Ukrainian -- Козаки́, Kozaki; Polish --  Kozacy. Originally derived from Turkic Qazaqlar.

Answer 4

I believe that refers to gog and magog and is talking specifically about the Cassocks.

Answer 5

hi you must be spelling it wrong theres no such thing...

Answer 6

my grandpa lived in arabia when he was young.

Answer 7

it is original turkish word... meaning small... I'm a native arab speaker but my dad is turkish origin.. and our family name contain this word...