تنكه

See also: تنكة, تنگه, and پنکھ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian تنگه (tenge, “thin silver coin”).

Noun

تنكه • (teneke)

1. tin plate, a thin sheet of steel coated with tin used to make cans
2. tin, an airtight container, made of tin or other metal, used to preserve food

Derived terms

• تنكهجی (tenekeci, “tinman”)
• تنكهلو (tenekli, “covered with tin”)
• صاری تنكه (sarı teneke, “brass leaf”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: teneke
• → Romanian: tinichea
• → South Levantine Arabic: تنكة (tanake)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “teneke”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4729
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تنكه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 408
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lamina”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 910
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تنكه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1436
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “teneke”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تنكه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 602