سنجاق
Ottoman Turkish
سنجاق
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sančgak (“lance, streamer attached to a spear”) and thus sharing the same root of صانجیمق (sancımak, “to stab, stick a sharp pointed thing into”) and صنجی (sancı, “pain in the gut”).
Noun
سنجاق • (sancak)
- flag, banner, standard, ensign, especially the Ottoman standard
- Synonyms: بیراق (bayrak), رایت (rayet), علم (ʿalem), لوا (liva)
- sanjak, the second level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire
- Synonym: لوا (liva)
- (nautical) starboard, the righthand side of a ship when facing the front
Derived terms
- سنجاق اچمق (sancak açmak, “to unfurl a flag”)
- سنجاق بكی (sancak beği, “governor of a sanjak”)
- سنجاقدار (sancakdar, “flag-bearer”)
- سنجاق شریف (sancak-ı şerif, “the sacred banner of Mohammed”)
- سنجاق چكمك (sancak çekmek, “to hoist up a flag”)
Descendants
- Turkish: sancak
- → Albanian: sanxhak
- → Arabic: سَنْجَق (sanjaq)
- → Armenian: սանջակ (sanǰak), սանճախ (sančax)
- → Belarusian: санджа́к (sandžák)
- → Bulgarian: санджа́к (sandžák)
- → Czech: sandžak
- → English: sanjak, sanjakate
- → French: sandjak, sangiac
- → German: Sandschak
- → Hungarian: szandzsák
- → Italian: sangiacco
- → Kazakh: санжақ (sanjaq)
- → Macedonian: санџак (sandžak)
- → Persian: سنجاق
- → Polish: sandżak
- → Portuguese: sanjaco
- → Romanian: sangeac
- → Russian: санджа́к (sandžák)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: са̀нџак
- Latin: sàndžak
- → Slovak: sandžak
- → Spanish: sanjacado
- → Ukrainian: санджа́к (sandžák)
- → Uyghur: سانجاق (sanjaq)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “sancak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4055
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “سنجاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 694
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Vexillum”, 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 1750
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “سنجاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2683
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “sancak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “سنجاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1082
Persian
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /sanˈd͡ʒɑːq/
- (Dari Persian) IPA(key): /sanˈd͡ʒɑːq/
- (Iranian Persian) IPA(key): /sænˈd͡ʒɒːɢ/
- (Tajik) IPA(key): /sanˈd͡ʒɔq/
Noun
سنجاق • (sanjâq)
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Urdu
Etymology
From Persian سنجاق (sanjāq).
Noun
سنجاق • (sanjāq) m (Hindi spelling संजाक़)
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