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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From كمان (keman, “archery bow; violin, fiddle”) + ـچه (-çe, diminutive suffix for Persian words).
Noun
كمانچه • (kemençe)
- a little archery bow
- a bow used for carding cotton or wool
- a long, curved tail to an official signature
- a small-sized violin
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References
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كمانچه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 4013–4014
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كمانچه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1570