سنجاقدار

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From سنجاق (sancak, “flag”) +‎ ـدار (-dar).

Noun

سنجاقدار • (sancakdar)

1. flag-bearer, standard-bearer, a person who carries a flag or banner

   Synonyms: بیراقدار (bayrakdar), علمدار (ʿalemdar)

Descendants

• Turkish: sancaktar
• → Armenian: սանճախտար (sančaxtar)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sancaktar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4056
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سنجاقدار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 694
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vexillifer”, 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 1750
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سنجاقدار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2684
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سنجاقدار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1082