مهنك
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- محك (mehek)
Etymology
Vulgarized form of Arabic مِحَكّ (miḥakk, “touchstone”).
Noun
مهنك • (mehenk)
- touchstone, a stone used to check the quality of gold alloys
- (figuratively) test or examination of a person's worth or morality
Derived terms
- مهنكجی (mehenkci, “goldsmith who tests metals”)
Descendants
- Turkish: mihenk
- → Armenian: մէհէնկ (mēhēnk)
- → Romanian: mehenghi
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “mehenk1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3113
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “مهنك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1254
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Lapis Lydius”, 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 914
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “محك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4451
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “mihenk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مهنك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2048