لنگر

لنگر

Ottoman Turkish

لنگر

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian لنگر‎ (langar, “anchor”).

Noun

لنگر • (lenger)

1. (nautical) anchor, a tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of the sea

   Synonym: دمیر‎ (demir)

2. hospice where poor and indigent people are fed for free every day
3. kind of large and deep dish with a border four or five inches high or wide

Derived terms

• لنگر بوصه‌سی‎ (lenger bosası, “stopper of a cable”)
• لنگر دار‎ (lenger-dar, “anchored”)
• لنگر قرار‎ (lenger-karar, “permanently fixed for a stay”)
• لنگرلو‎ (lengerli, “staid, grave, steady”)
• لنگر گاه‎ (lenger-gah, “anchorage”)
• لنگری‎ (lengeri, “pertaining to a hospice”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: lenger
• → Armenian: լէնկէռ (lēnkēṙ)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “lenger”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2955
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “لنگر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1081
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Anchora”, 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 61
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “لنگر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4201
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “lenger”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “لنگر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1643

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Persian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄγκῡρα (ánkūra).

Alternately of Iranian origin, cognate with Sanskrit लङ्गल (laṅgala).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /lanɡaɾ/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /lanɡaɾ/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /lænɡæɾ/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /lanɡaɾ/

Noun

Dari	لنگر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	лангар (langar)

لنگر • (langar) (plural لنگرها‎ (langar-hâ))

1. (nautical, Internet) anchor

Derived terms

• لنگرگاه‎ (langargâh)
• لنگر انداختن‎ (langar andâxtan)
• لنگر افکندن‎ (langar afkandan)

Descendants

• → Arabic: أَنْجَر‎ (ʾanjar)
• → Gujarati: લંગર (laṅgar)
• → Ottoman Turkish: لنگر‎ (lenger)
  • Turkish: lenger
  • → Armenian: լէնկէռ (lēnkēṙ)