قانجیق
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- قانجق (kancık)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kančïk (“bitch; female”); cognate with Azerbaijani qancıq, Bashkir ҡансыҡ (qansıq), Kazakh қаншық (qanşyq), Kyrgyz канчык (kancık), Southern Altai канчык (kančïk) and Turkmen ganjyk.
Noun
قانجیق • (kancık)
- bitch, an adult female of the species Canis lupus
- Synonyms: كلبت (kelbet), ماجان (macian)
- (zoology) she, any female animal
- Synonym: دشی (dişi)
- (figuratively) malicious or perverse woman
- (figuratively) treacherous person, betrayer
Descendants
- Turkish: kancık
- → Armenian: խանճըխ (xančəx)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kancık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2380
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قانجق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 285b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قانجیق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 937
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Canis”, 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 142
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قانجق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3599
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kancık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قانجیق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1424