See also: جندرة

Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Persian جندره (jandara).

Noun edit

جندره (cendere)

  1. cylinder, columnal shape
  2. press, mangle, calender (for clothes, in the kitchen, wine, hydraulic presses etc.)
    Synonym: باصقی (baskı)
  3. (figurative) a narrow passage
  4. (figurative) oppression

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Turkish: cendere
  • Egyptian Arabic: جَنْدَرَة (gandara, mangle, calender and any rotary press)
  • Armenian: ճէնտէրէ (čēntērē)

Further reading edit

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911), “جندره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 447b
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “جندره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1662
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “torcularius, Preßmeister”, 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, Vienna, column 1679
  • 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 47
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cendere”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890), “جندره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 682

Persian edit

Etymology edit

An Indo-Aryan borrowing, ultimately from Sanskrit यन्त्र (yantra).

Noun edit

جندره (jandara)

  1. the bar of a door
  2. two pieces of wood used for smoothing linens; a calender, mangle
  3. (figurative) detersionsmoothening, extenuation

Adjective edit

جندره (jandara)

  1. wrinkled, unsmoothened
  2. clownish, boorish, unpolished

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

References edit

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “جندره”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • Vullers, Johann August (1855), “جندره”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 532b
  • Edelʹman, D. I. (2011) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 75
  • Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 427, pages 95
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1895) Persische Studien [Persian Studies] (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 427, page 50
  • Morgenstierne, Georg (1923) “Iranian Notes”, in Acta Orientalia, volume 1, Leiden: E.J. Brill, pages 264–265
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 7