سرپنك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Vulgarization of Persian سرپناه (sarpanâh), a compound of سر (sar, “head”) and پناه (panâh, “shelter, refuge”).

Noun

سرپنك • (serpenek)

1. helmet, a hard, protective head covering used in battle

   Synonym: باشلق (başlık)

Descendants

• Turkish: serpenek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “serpenek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4162
• Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “serpenek”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 348
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سرپنك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 2585
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سرپنك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1050