قانجه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Venetan ganzo, from Proto-Celtic *ganskyos (branch, twig).

Alternative forms

Noun

قانجه • (kanca, kance) (plural قانجه‌لر (kancalar))

  1. large hook, as a boathook, a meat hook, or a pothook
    Synonyms: چنگل (çengel), قلاب (kullab)
Derived terms
  • ال قانجه‌سی (el kancası, kind of small hook)
  • قانجه آتمق (kanca atmak, to throw out a hook)
  • قانجه‌باش (kancabaş, ship of a curved prow)
  • قانجه‌لاتمق (kancalatmak, to make or let be grappled with a hook)
  • قانجه‌لامق (kancalamak, to grapple with a hook)
  • قانجه‌لو (kancalı, provided with hooks)
Descendants
  • Turkish: kanca
  • Arabic: قَنْجَة (qanja, a kind of sailing boat of up to two masts used for housing and for pleasure-trips), غَنْجَة (ḡanja)
  • Armenian: խանճա (xanča)
  • Aromanian: cánǧe, gánǧe
  • Albanian: ganxhë, kanxhë
  • Bulgarian: ка́нджа (kándža)
  • Greek: γάντζα (gántza), κάντζα (kántza)
  • Macedonian: канџа (kandža)
  • Romanian: cange
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ка̑нџа
    Latin script: kȃndža

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1951) “խանճա”, in Ewropakan pʻoxaṙeal baṙer hayerēni mēǰ [European Loanwords in Armenian] (Azgayin matenadaran; 166) (in Armenian), published from the author's manuscript submitted in 1921, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 95
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kanca2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2380
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قانجه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 937
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Uncus”, 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[2], Vienna, column 1781
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قانجه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 3600
  • Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 48
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kanca”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قانجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1426

Etymology 2

Adverb

قانجه • (kanca, kance)

  1. alternative form of قانی (kanı, hanı, hani, where)

Further reading

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قانجه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[5], Vienna, column 3600
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قانجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1426