Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology edit

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Noun edit

رنجل (rencil)

  1. street child, street urchin, a child who lives in the streets

Descendants edit

  • Armenian: Ռենջիլյան (Ṙenǰilyan), Ռենճիլյան (Ṙenčilyan)

Further reading edit

  • Dankoff, Robert (1991) An Evliya Çelebi Glossary: Unusual, Dialectal and Foreign Words in the Seyahat-name (Sources of oriental languages and literatures; 14)‎[1], Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, page 78
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Nebulo”, 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 1125
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “رنجل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 2365
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “رنجل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 988