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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian گناه (gonâh, “sin; crime; guilt”), from Middle Persian 𐫇𐫏𐫗𐫀𐫍 (wynʾh /wināh/, “sin, crime”).
Noun
كناه • (günâh) (definite accusative كناهی (günâhı), plural كناهلر (günâhlar))
- fault, guilt, blame, the responsibility for a mistake or wrongdoing
- Synonyms: ذنب (zenb), صوچ (suç)
- crime, misdeed, offence, any act committed in violation of the law
- Synonyms: جرم (cürm), جنایت (cinayet), صوچ (suç)
- (religion) sin, a transgression against divine law or a law of God
- Synonyms: ذنب (zenb), صوچ (suç), وبال (vebal)
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Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “كناه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 648
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “günah”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1803
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كناه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 397a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كناه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1043
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Culpa”, 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 307
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كناه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4029
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “günah”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كناه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1574