سنجاق

Ottoman Turkish

سنجاق

Alternative forms

• սանճագ (sancak) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sančgak (“lance, streamer attached to a spear”) and thus sharing the same root of صانجیمق (sancımak, “to stab, stick a sharp pointed thing into”) and صنجی (sancı, “pain in the gut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑnd͡ʒɑk/

Noun

سنجاق • (sancak)

1. flag, banner, standard, ensign, especially the Ottoman standard

   Synonyms: بیراق (bayrak), رایت (rayet), علم (ʿalem), لوا (liva)

2. sanjak, the second level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire

   Synonym: لوا (liva)

3. (nautical) starboard, the righthand side of a ship when facing the front

Derived terms

• سنجاق اچمق (sancak açmak, “to unfurl a flag”)
• سنجاق بكی (sancak beği, “governor of a sanjak”)
• سنجاق شریف (sancak-ı şerif, “the sacred banner of Mohammed”)
• سنجاق چكمك (sancak çekmek, “to hoist up a flag”)
• سنجاقدار (sancakdar, “flag-bearer”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: sancak
• → Albanian: sanxhak
• → Arabic: سَنْجَق (sanjaq)
• → Armenian: սանջակ (sanǰak), սանճախ (sančax)
• → Belarusian: санджа́к (sandžák)
• → Bulgarian: санджа́к (sandžák)
• → Czech: sandžak
• → English: sanjak, sanjakate
• → French: sandjak, sangiac
• → German: Sandschak
• → Hungarian: szandzsák
• → Italian: sangiacco
• → Kazakh: санжақ (sanjaq)
• → Macedonian: санџак (sandžak)
• → Polish: sandżak
• → Portuguese: sanjaco
• → Romanian: sangeac
• → Russian: санджа́к (sandžák)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: са̀нџак

  Latin script: sàndžak

• → Slovak: sandžak
• → Spanish: sanjacado
• → Ukrainian: санджа́к (sandžák)
• → Uyghur: سانجاق (sanjaq)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sancak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4055
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سنجاق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 276b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سنجاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 694
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vexillum”, 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 1750
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سنجاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2683
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sancak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سنجاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1082

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkic.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [san.ˈd͡ʒɑːq]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sän.d͡ʒɑ́ːq]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sän.d͡ʒɑ́ːq]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sän.d͡ʒɑ́ːq]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [sän.d͡ʒɔ́ːq]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sæn.d͡ʒɒ́ːɢ̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [sän.d͡ʒɔ́q]

Readings
Classical reading?	sanjāq
Dari reading?	sanjāq
Iranian reading?	sanjâğ
Tajik reading?	sanjoq

Noun

Dari	سنجاق
Iranian Persian
Tajik	санҷоқ

سنجاق • (sanjâq)

1. pin

Derived terms

• سنجاق سر (sanjâq-sar)
• سنجاق سینه (sanjâq-sine)
• سنجاق قفلی (sanjâq-qofli)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سنجاق (sanjāq).

Noun

سنجاق • (sanjāq) m (Hindi spelling संजाक़)

1. pin