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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Persian چنگ (čang, “claw, talon; lyre, harp”).
Noun
چنك • (çenk)
- claw, talon of a bird
- Synonyms: پنچه (pençe), طرمیق (tırmık), طرناق (tırnak)
- crook used by an elephant's driver
- lyre, harp
Descendants
Adjective
چنك • (çenk)
- curved, crooked, humped
Further reading
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چنك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 1663–1664
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چنك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 732