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English
Noun
sancak (plural sancaks)
- Alternative form of sanjak.
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish سنجاق (sancak, “flag; subdivision of a vilayet”), from Proto-Turkic *sančgak (“lance, streamer attached to a spear”). Cognate with the verb sançmak (“to stab”), also found as Azerbaijani sancmaq (“to stab”), Bashkir сәнсеү (sənsew, “to stab”), Kazakh шаншу (şanşu, “to stab”), Turkmen sançmak, etc. Related to sancı (“pain, ache”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sancak (definite accusative sancağı, plural sancaklar)
- (poetic) flag, banner
- al sancak ― the Turkish flag (poetic)
- Kırmızı Sancak ― Red Ensign
- emblem
- sanjak (an administrative region under the Ottoman Empire, a subdivision of a vilayet)
- starboard
Declension