كنج
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from Persian کنج (konj, “corner”).
Noun[edit]
كنج • (künc)
- (geometry) angle, a figure formed by two rays which start from a common point
- corner, nook, the space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point
- basement, cellar, or dungeon, any floor of a building situated below ground level
- Synonym: پودروم (podrum)
Derived terms[edit]
- كنجك (küncek, “little corner; curiosity”)
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
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- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “künc”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2895
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كنج”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 397a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كنج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1043
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Angulus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[3], Vienna, column 62
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كنج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 4032
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كنج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1575
Etymology 2[edit]
Adjective[edit]
كنج • (genc)
- Alternative form of گنج (genc, “young”)
Further reading[edit]
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- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كنج”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[6], Vienna: F. Beck, page 397a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كنج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[7], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1043
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كنج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[8], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1575