چنكل

See also: چنگل

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Persian چنگال (čangâl, “fork; hook; claw”).

Noun

چنگل • (çengel)

  1. hook, a rod bent into a curved shape
    Synonyms: قانجه (kanca), قلاب (kullab)
  2. (figuratively) one's power or possession
  3. (botany) any large thorn shaped like a hook

Derived terms

  • دیوار چنگلی (divar çengeli, “hook fastened in a wall”)
  • قایق چنگلی (kayık çengeli, “boathook”)
  • چنگل ساقزی (çengel sakızı, “juice of a kind of thistle”)
  • چنگلستان (çengelistan, “jungle of thorny bushes”)
  • چنگلسز (çengelsiz, “hookless; thornless”)
  • چنگللمك (çengellemek, “to hook”)
  • چنگللنمك (çengellenmek, “to be hooked”)
  • چنگللو (çengelli, “furnished with hooks”)
  • چنگله آصمق (çengele asmak, “to hang up on a hook”)
  • چنگله دونمك (çengele dönmek, “to slouch due to illness or age”)
  • چنگله گلمك (çengele gelmek, “to be hung”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: çengel
  • → Albanian: çengel, çengë
  • → Arabic: شَنْكَل (šankal)
  • → Armenian: չէնկէլ (čʻēnkēl)
  • → Aromanian: cinǵéľu
  • → Bulgarian: ченге́л (čengél)
  • → Greek: τσιγκέλι (tsigkéli)
  • → Macedonian: ченгел (čengel)
  • → Romanian: cinghel, cinghil
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: чѐнгел
    Latin script: čèngel

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