سنخ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سِنْخ (sinḵ).

Noun

سنخ • (sinh) (definite accusative سنخی (sinhi), plural اسناخ (esnâh) or سنوخ (sünuh))

1. tooth socket, a socket in the jaw in which the roots of teeth are held
2. (anatomy) alveolus, any concave cavity or pit inside the human body
3. (by extension) tang, the part of a knife which is inserted into the handle

Derived terms

• سنخی (sinhî, “alveolar”)

Descendants

• Turkish: sinh

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sinh”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4253
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “sinh”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1144
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سنخ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 694
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Radix”, 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 1432
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سنخ”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2685
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سنخ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1082

Persian

Noun

Dari	سنخ
Iranian Persian
Tajik

سنخ • (senx)

1. type, class

   Synonyms: قماش, قسم, گونه

References

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “سنخ”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press