بونجق

Ottoman Turkish

بونجقلر

Alternative forms

• بونجوق (boncuk)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bōnčuk (“bead”), a development from *bōń (“neck”). Cognate with Azerbaijani muncuq, Kazakh моншақ (monşaq), Kyrgyz мончок (moncok), Turkmen monjuk, Uyghur مونچاق (monchaq) and Uzbek munchoq.

Noun

بونجق • (boncuk)

1. bead, any sort of globule made of stone or glass, with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire

   Synonyms: كره (küre), مهره (mühre), یوارلاق (yuvarlak)

Derived terms

• بونجقجی (boncukcu, “dealer in beads”)
• قاطر بونجغی (katır boncuğu, “cowry shells”)
• گوز بونجغی (göz boncuğu, “large bead worn to avert the evil eye”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: boncuk
• → Armenian: պօնճուխ (pōnčux)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “boncuk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 650
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بونجق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 135b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بونجق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 295
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sphærula”, 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 1583
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بونجق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 944
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “boncuk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بونجق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 411