خنكار

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian خواندگار (xond-kâr). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

خنكار • (hünkâr)

1. Padishah, sultan

   Synonym: پادشاه

Derived terms

• خنكار بگندی (hünkâr beğendi)

Descendants

• Turkish: hünkâr
• → Armenian: հիւնքեար (hiwnkʻear)
• → Turkmen: hüňkär (“character in epic of gorogly, bloodthristy”)

Further reading

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hünkâr”, in Nişanyan Sözlük