سیڭك

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• سڭك (siñek), سینك (sinek)

سیڭك

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *siŋek (“mosquito; fly”); cognate with Azerbaijani sinək, Chuvash шăна (šăna), Crimean Tatar sinek, Southern Altai сек (sek), Turkmen siňek and Tuvan сээк (seek).

Noun

سیڭك • (siñek)

1. fly, any insect of the order Diptera

   Synonyms: ذباب (zubab), مگس (meges)

2. ♣, clubs in card- and boardgames

   Synonym: اسپاتی (ispati)

Coordinate terms

Suits in Ottoman Turkish · طاقیم (takım) (layout · text)
قوپه (kupa)	اوریا (orya)	ماچه (maça), كورك (kürek)	اسپاتی (ispati), سیڭك (siñek)

Derived terms

• آت سیڭكی (at siñeği, “horsefly”)
• اشك سیڭكی (eşek siñeği, “gadfly”)
• بوینوزلو سیڭك (boynuzlu siñek, “stalk-eyed fly”)
• سیوری سیڭك (sivri siñek, “mosquito”)
• سیڭكلتمك (siñekletmek, “to make or let be infested by flies”)
• سیڭكلك (siñeklik, “flyswatter”)
• سیڭكلو (siñekli, “infested with flies”)
• قره سیڭك (kara siñek, “housefly”)
• قورت سیڭكی (kurt siñeği, “blowfly”)
• گوك سیڭك (gök siñek, “flesh fly”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: sinek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sinek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4250
• Deny, Jean (1921) Grammaire de la langue turque (dialecte osmanli), Paris: Leroux, page 790
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سیڭك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 708
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Musca”, 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 1107
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سكك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2643
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sinek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سیڭك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1102
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “سیڭك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 513