كنج

كنج

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *gEnč. Cognate with Azerbaijani gənc.

Adjective

كنج • (genç)

1. young

Noun

كنج • (genç)

1. young man, youth

Descendants

• Turkish: genç
• → Middle Armenian: կէնճ (kēnč)
  • Armenian: կենճ (kenč), գ^յա̈նջ (g^yänǰ)

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “كنج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1575b