چنگال
Ottoman Turkish
Noun
چنگال • (çengel)
- Alternative spelling of چنگل (çengel, “hook”)
Further reading
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “چنگال”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1664
Persian
FWOTD – 13 October 2021
Etymology
Compare چنگ (čang).
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چنگال (čangâl)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /t͡ʃanˈɡɑːl/
- (Dari Persian) IPA(key): /t͡ʃanˈɡɑːl/
- (Iranian Persian) IPA(key): /t͡ʃænˈɡɒːl/
- (Tajik) IPA(key): /t͡ʃanˈɡɔl/
Noun
چنگال • (čangâl) (plural چنگالها (čangâl-hâ))
- fork
- hook
- claw, talon
- c. 1260, Rumi, “3:3984”, in The Masnavi:
- گربه مرگست و مرض چنگال او، میزند بر مرغ و پر و بال او.
- gorbe marg-ast o maraz čangâl-e u, mi-zanad bar morġ o par o bâl-e u.
- the cat is death and disease is its claws; it strikes the bird, and its feathers and wings.
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Inflection
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Descendants
- → Armenian: չանգալ (čʿangal)
- → Azerbaijani: çəngəl
- → Georgian: ჩანგალი (čangali)
- → Hindustani: caṅgāl
- Hindi: चंगाल
- Urdu: چنگال
- → Ottoman Turkish: چنگل (çengel), چنگال (çengel)
- Turkish: çengel
- → Albanian: çengel, çengë
- → Arabic: شَنْكَل (šankal)
- → Armenian: չէնկէլ (čʿēnkēl)
- → Aromanian: cinǵéľu
- → Bulgarian: ченге́л (čengél)
- → Greek: τσιγκέλι (tsigkéli)
- → Macedonian: ченгел (čengel)
- → Romanian: cinghel, cinghil
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: чѐнгел
- Latin: čèngel
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian چنگال (čangāl).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /t͡ʃəŋ.ɡɑːl/
Noun
چَن٘گال • (caṅgāl) m (Hindi spelling चंगाल)
- claw (of a hunting animal); talon (of a bird)
- Synonym: پَنجا (pañjā)
Declension
Declension of چنگال | ||
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singular | plural | |
direct | چَن٘گال (caṅgāl) | چَن٘گال (caṅgāl) |
oblique | چَن٘گال (caṅgāl) | چَن٘گالوں (caṅgālō̃) |
vocative | چَن٘گال (caṅgāl) | چَن٘گالو (caṅgālō) |
Related terms
- چَن٘گ (caṅg)
- چَن٘گُل (caṅgul)
Further reading
- “چنگال”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “چَن٘گال”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “چنگل”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884), “چنگال”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.