قرنجه
Ottoman Turkish
قرنجه
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *k(i)arïnčga (“a kind of insect”); cognate with Azerbaijani qarınca, Crimean Tatar qarınca and Turkmen garynja.
Noun
قرنجه • (karınca)
- ant, any of various insects in the family Formicidae
- Synonyms: مور (mur), نمل (nemel)
- formication, an abnormal skin sensation in a numbed limb
- honeycomb holes of a metal or other material
Derived terms
- قرنجه باغی (karınca bağı, “chloroform”)
- قرنجهلاشمق (karıncalaşmak, “to formicate”)
- قرنجهلانمق (karıncalanmak, “to become infested with ants”)
- قرنجهلق (karıncalık, “anthill”)
- قرنجهلو (karıncalı, “infested with ants”)
Descendants
- Turkish: karınca
- → Armenian: խառընճա (xaṙənča)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “karınca”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2436
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Formica”, 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 602
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قرنجه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3678
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “karınca1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قرنجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1450