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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خندق (hendek), from Arabic خَنْدَق (ḵandaq).
Noun
hendek m
- ditch
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic عِنْدَك (ʕindak, literally “with you”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hendek m or f by sense (plural hendeks)
- (slang) cop, policeman
Further reading
Gagauz
Etymology
From Persian خندق (xandaq), itself from Arabic خَنْدَق (ḵandaq, “trench, moat”), ultimately from Middle Persian *handag;[1] compare Azerbaijani xəndək and Turkish hendek.
Noun
hendek
- ditch, moat
References
- ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007
Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish خندق (hendek), from Arabic خَنْدَق (ḵandaq) (itself from an Iranian source).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /henˈdek/
- Hyphenation: hen‧dek
Noun
hendek (definite accusative hendeği, plural hendekler)
- ditch
- moat
Declension
Further reading
- “hendek”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu