مارانغوز

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• مرانغوز (marangoz)

Etymology

From Venetian marangon (“carpenter”), from a Medieval Latin development of Latin mergus (“diver, loon”); see there for more.

Noun

مارانغوز • (marangoz)

1. shipwright, a builder or repairer of ships
2. carpenter, joiner, maker of wooden furniture

   Synonyms: دولگر (dülger), طوغرامه‌جی (doğramacı)

Derived terms

• مارانغوز بالغی (marangoz balığı, “sawfish”)
• مارانغوز كسر (marangoz keseri, “large, two-handed adze”)
• مارانغوز چاپرازی (marangoz çaprazı, “saw file”)
• مارانغوزلق (marangozluk, “quality of a carpenter”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: marangoz
• → Albanian: marangoz
• → Armenian: մառանկոզ (maṙankoz)
• → Greek: μαραγκός (maragkós)
• → Romanian: marangoz

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “marangoz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3060
• Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 395, pages 291—292
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مارانغوز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1090
• 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 48
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “marangoz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مارانغوز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1654