كوكرجینلك

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Ottoman Turkish

گوگرجینلك

Etymology

From گوگرجین (güvercin, “rock dove, pigeon”) +‎ ـلك (-lik, luk).

Noun

گوگرجینلك • (güvercinlik)

  1. (historical) dovecote, a tower-like structure in which pigeons were kept
  2. pepperbox, a tower capped by a cupola, looking similar to a giant pepper shaker
  3. Martello tower, a short, sturdy, round masonry fort, usually built along the coast
  4. (nautical) small locker in the extreme stern of a Bosporus caique

Descendants

  • Turkish: güvercinlik
  • → Armenian: կիւվէրճինլիխ (kiwvērčinlix)

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “güvercinlik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1815
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوكرجینلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1056
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Columbarium”, 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 206
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوكرجینلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4086
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوكرجینلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1597
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