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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Persian تنگه (tenge, “thin silver coin”).
Noun
تنكه • (teneke)
- tin plate, a thin sheet of steel coated with tin used to make cans
- tin, an airtight container, made of tin or other metal, used to preserve food
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Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “teneke”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4729
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تنكه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 408
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lamina”, 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 910
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تنكه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1436
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “teneke”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تنكه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 602