سنجاق
Azerbaijani
Alternative forms
- صنجاق
Noun
سنجاق (definite accusative سنجاقی, plural سنجاقلر)
- Arabic spelling of sancaq
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- սանճագ (sancak) — Armeno-Turkish
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *sančgak (“lance, streamer attached to a spear”) and thus sharing the same root of صانجیمق (sancımak, “to stab, stick a sharp pointed thing into”) and صنجی (sancı, “pain in the gut”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɑnd͡ʒɑk/
Noun
سنجاق • (sancak)
- flag, banner, standard, ensign, especially the Ottoman standard
- sanjak, the second level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire
- Synonym: لوا (liva)
- (nautical) starboard, the righthand side of a ship when facing the front
Derived terms
- سنجاق اچمق (sancak açmak, “to unfurl a flag”)
- سنجاق بكی (sancak beği, “governor of a sanjak”)
- سنجاق شریف (sancak-ı şerif, “the sacred banner of Mohammed”)
- سنجاق چكمك (sancak çekmek, “to hoist up a flag”)
- سنجاقدار (sancakdar, “flag-bearer”)
Descendants
- Turkish: sancak
- → Albanian: sanxhak
- → Arabic: سَنْجَق (sanjaq)
- → Armenian: սանջակ (sanǰak), սանճախ (sančax)
- → Belarusian: санджа́к (sandžák)
- → Bulgarian: санджа́к (sandžák)
- → Czech: sandžak
- → English: sanjak, sanjakate
- → French: sandjak, sangiac
- → German: Sandschak
- → Hungarian: szandzsák
- → Italian: sangiacco
- → Kazakh: санжақ (sanjaq)
- → Macedonian: санџак (sandžak)
- → Polish: sandżak
- → Portuguese: sanjaco
- → Romanian: sangeac
- → Russian: санджа́к (sandžák)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: са̀нџак
- Latin script: sàndžak
- → Slovak: sandžak
- → Spanish: sanjacado
- → Ukrainian: санджа́к (sandžák)
- → Uyghur: سانجاق (sanjaq)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sancak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4055
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سنجاق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 276b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سنجاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 694
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vexillum”, 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 1750
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سنجاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 2683
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sancak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سنجاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1082
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Turkic.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /san.ˈd͡ʒaːq/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [sän.d͡ʒɑ́ːq]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [sæn.d͡ʒɒ́ːɢ̥]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [sän.d͡ʒɔ́q]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | sanjāq |
| Dari reading? | sanjāq |
| Iranian reading? | sanjâġ |
| Tajik reading? | sanjoq |
Noun
| Dari | سنجاق |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | санҷоқ |
سنجاق • (sanjâq)
Derived terms
- سنجاق سر (sanjâq-sar)
- سنجاق سینه (sanjâq-sine)
- سنجاق قفلی (sanjâq-qofli)
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian سنجاق (sanjāq).
Noun
سنجاق • (sanjāq) m (Hindi spelling संजाक़)