راتینج

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• راتنج (ratenc)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَاتِينَج (rātīnaj, “resin”), itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥητίνη (rhētínē). Doublet of رچینه (reçine, “resin; colophony”).

Noun

راتینج • (ratinec) (definite accusative راتینجی (ratineci), plural راتینجلر (ratinecler))

1. resin, gum, a highly viscous secretion of many plants, particularly coniferous trees

   Synonyms: رچینه (reçine), ساقز (sakız)

2. turpentine, any oleoresin secreted by the wood or bark of certain trees, like the terebinth

Derived terms

• راتینجی (ratinecî, “resinous”)
• راتینجیه (ratineciye, “resinous plant”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: ratinec

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ratinec”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3942
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “râtînec”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1054
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “راتنج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 610
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Resina”, 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 1471
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “راتینج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2251
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “راتینج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 953