چنكی

See also: چنگی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian چَنْگِی (čangī).

Noun

چنگی • (çengi)

  1. public dancer

Descendants

  • Turkish: çengi
  • → Albanian: çengi
  • → Aromanian: cinghíe
  • → Bulgarian: чинги́я (čingíja)
  • → Macedonian: ченгија (čengija)
  • → Romanian: cinghíe
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: чѐнгија
    Latin script: čèngija

References

  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “482. ČINGÍE, sb. f. pl. činǵiǐ, -urǐ”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎[1], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 110
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.