اینجك

Ottoman Turkish

اینجكلر

Alternative forms

• انجك (incik), انجیك (incik)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yẹ̄nčik (“shin, shinbone”); cognate with Salar incik and Turkmen īnjik.

Noun

اینجك • (incik)

1. shin, shank, the part of the leg between the knee and the ankle

   Synonym: باجاق (bacak)

2. shinbone, tibia, the inner and usually larger of the two bones of the leg

Derived terms

• اینجك یخنیسی (incik yahnisi, “stew of sheep's shanks”)

Descendants

• Turkish: incik

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “incik2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2172
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اینجك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 96b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “انجك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 154
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Crus”, 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 305
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اینجك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 615
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “incik”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اینجك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 309