اوكندره

Ottoman Turkish

اوكندره

Alternative forms

• اوكندرك (üğenderek)
• իւյէնտիրէ (üyendire), իւյէնտէրէ (üyendere) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From Greek βουκέντρα (voukéntra, “goad, prod”), from Ancient Greek βούκεντρον (boúkentron, “oxgoad”), a compound of βούς (boús, “ox”) + κέντρον (kéntron, “goad”).

Noun

اوكندره • (üğendire, üvendire)

1. goad, prod, any long, pointed stick used to spur or guide livestock

   Synonym: دورتی (dürtü)

Descendants

• Turkish: üvendire

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “üvendire”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5067
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اوكندره”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 84b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوكندره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 197
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Stimulus”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1598
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوكندره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 533
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “üvendire”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوكندره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 263