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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Arabic قِنْدِيل (qindīl), ultimately from Latin candēla (“candle”).
Noun
قندیل • (kandil or kındil) (plural قنادیل)
- lamp, especially an oil lamp hanging from the ceiling
- Synonyms: (oil lamp) چراغ (çirag), سراج (sirac), لامپه (lampa), مصباح (misbah)
- floating firework star, from a rocket or bomb
- (botany) hanging flower or glumaceous seed vessel
- floating soap bubble in the air
Derived terms
- قندیلجی (kandilci, “maker or seller of lamps”)
- قندیللك (kandillik, “arrangement for holding a lamp”)
- قندیللو (kandilli, “illuminated by a lamp”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kandil”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2382
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قندیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 973
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lucerna”, 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 975
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قندیل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 3769–3770
- Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 46
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kandil”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قندیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1478
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic قِنْدِيل (qindīl), see there for further information.
Noun
قندیل • (qandil) (plural قندیلها (qandil-hâ))
- (archaic) lamp
- Synonym: چراغ (čerâğ)
- (archaic) torch
- Synonym: مشعل (maš'al)
- (archaic) candlestick, candelabrum
- Synonyms: چراغدان (čerâğdân), شمعدان (šam’dân)
- icicle
- Synonyms: کلفخشنگ (kalafaxšang), دنگاله (dangâle), دنگداله (dangdâle)
Descendants
References