چنگی
Ottoman Turkish
چنگی
Etymology
From Persian چنگی (čangī).
Noun
چنگی • (çengi)
- public dancer
Descendants
- Turkish: çengi
- → Aromanian: cinghíe
- → Bulgarian: чингѝя (čingìja)
- → Macedonian: ченгија (čengija)
- → Romanian: cinghíe
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: чѐнгија
- Latin: čèngija
References
- Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007), “482. ČINGÍE, sb. f. pl. činǵiǐ, -urǐ”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 110
Persian
Etymology
چنگ (čang) + ـی (ī).
Noun
چنگی • (čangī)
- harper, lutanist
- public dancer
Descendants
- → Ottoman Turkish: چنگی (çengi)
- Turkish: çengi
- → Aromanian: cinghíe
- → Bulgarian: чингѝя (čingìja)
- → Macedonian: ченгија (čengija)
- → Romanian: cinghíe
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: чѐнгија
- Latin: čèngija
Further reading
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “چنگی”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
- Vullers, Johann August (1855), “چنگی”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume I, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, page 596a