لنكر

See also: لنگر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian لنگر (langar, “anchor”).

Noun

لنگر • (lenger)

  1. (nautical) anchor, a tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of the sea
    Synonym: دمیر (demir)
  2. hospice where poor and indigent people are fed for free every day
  3. kind of large and deep dish with a border four or five inches high or wide

Derived terms

  • لنگر بوصه‌سی (lenger bosası, “stopper of a cable”)
  • لنگر دار (lenger-dar, “anchored”)
  • لنگر قرار (lenger-karar, “permanently fixed for a stay”)
  • لنگر گاه (lenger-gah, “anchorage”)
  • لنگرلو (lengerli, “staid, grave, steady”)
  • لنگری (lengeri, “pertaining to a hospice”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: lenger
  • → Armenian: լէնկէռ (lēnkēṙ)

Further reading

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