صیقندی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From صیقمق (sıkmak, “to squeeze, press”).

Noun

صیقندی • (sıkındı, sıkıntı)

1. anything expressed as juice, oil, etc.
2. temporary bodily inconvenience or pressing want
3. embarrassment
4. suffering

Derived terms

• صیقندیجی (sıkındıcı)
• صیقندیسز (sıkındısız)
• صیقندیلو (sıkındılı)

Descendants

• Turkish: sıkıntı
• → Armenian: սըխընթը (səxəntʻə), սըխընթի (səxəntʻi)

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صیقندی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1202
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صیقندی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 780