قرنجهلق
Ottoman Turkish
قرنجهلق
Etymology
From قرنجه (karınca, “ant”) + ـلق (-lık, -luk).
Noun
قرنجهلق • (karıncalık)
- anthill, a cone-shaped structure built by ants
Descendants
- → Armenian: խառընճալըխ (xaṙənčaləx)
Further reading
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قرنجهلق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3678