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Crimean Tatar
Noun
frenk
- Frenchman
Declension
Adjective
frenk
- French, french.
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish فرنك (frenk, “Western European”), from Persian فرنگ (farang, “of the Western Europe”), from Old French franc (“of the Frankish realm”), from Latin francus (“piercer like a javelin or dagger”).
Noun
frenk (definite accusative frengi, plural frenkler)
- Frank, a person from Western Europe such as France, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany, referring to the realm of the Franks of old.
- Western European. From Old Anatolian Turkish and Ottoman Turkish; a person from Frankish Empire, and later for all Western Europe.
Danishmendname, (1360):
Uşda frengistān'dan Selahil frenk hisābsuz çeri ile irdi.
Declension
Adjective
frenk
- Western European.
- frenk üzümü ― frankish berry, referring to red currant
- frengî ― a Frankish-ware, a product made in Western Europe. Attested in Codex Cumanicus.
- frengî ― European (plague/disease), referring to syphilis. Contemporary Anatolian Turkish.