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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian نهنگ (nahang, “crocodile”).
Noun
نهنگ • (neheng)
- crocodile, alligator any of various large reptiles in the order Crocodilia
- Synonym: تمساح (timsah)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “neheng”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3516
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نهنك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1293
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Crocodillus”, 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 303
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “نهنك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5292
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نهنك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2117