قندیل

See also: قنديل

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic قِنْدِيل (qindīl), ultimately from Latin candēla (candle).

Noun

قندیل • (kandil or kındil) (plural قنادیل)

  1. lamp, especially an oil lamp hanging from the ceiling
    Synonyms: (oil lamp) چراغ (çirag), سراج (sirac), لامپه (lampa), مصباح (misbah)
  2. floating firework star, from a rocket or bomb
  3. (botany) hanging flower or glumaceous seed vessel
  4. floating soap bubble in the air

Derived terms

  • قندیلجی (kandilci, maker or seller of lamps)
  • قندیللك (kandillik, arrangement for holding a lamp)
  • قندیللو (kandilli, illuminated by a lamp)

Descendants

  • Turkish: kandil
  • Albanian: kandil
  • Armenian: խանտիլ (xantil), կանդիլ (kandil)

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kandil”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2382
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قندیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 973
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lucerna”, 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 975
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قندیل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, columns 3769–3770
  • 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 46
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kandil”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قندیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1478

Persian

Etymology

    Borrowed from Arabic قِنْدِيل (qindīl),[1] see there for further information.

    Noun

    قندیل • (qandil) (plural قندیل‌ها)

    1. (archaic) lamp
      Synonym: چراغ (čerâġ)
    2. (archaic) torch
      Synonym: مشعل (maš'al)
    3. (archaic) candlestick, candelabrum
      Synonyms: چراغدان (čerâġdân), شمعدان (šam’dân)
    4. icicle
      Synonyms: کلفخشنگ (kalafaxšang), دنگاله (dangâle), دنگداله (dangdâle)

    Descendants

    References