قرنجه‌لق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قرنجه (karınca, “ant”) +‎ ـلق (-lık, -luk).

Noun

قرنجه‌لق • (karıncalık)

  1. anthill, a cone-shaped structure built by ants

Descendants

  • → Armenian: խառընճալըխ (xaṙənčaləx)

Further reading

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قرنجه‌لق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎[1], Vienna, column 3678
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