صیندی

Ottoman Turkish

صیندی

Alternative forms

• صندی (sındı), صیندو (sındu)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sïndu (“scissors”), a word which derives from Middle Chinese 剪刀 (t͡siᴇn^X tɑu, “scissors”). Cognate with Karakhanid سِنْدُو (sïndū) and Turkmen syndy.

Noun

صیندی • (sındı) (definite accusative صیندیی (sındıyı), plural صیندیلر (sındılar))

1. tailor's scissors, a tool designed to cut through materials such as leather, or multiple layers of fabric

Descendants

• Turkish: sındı

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “صیندی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 242
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sındı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4203
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “صندی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 303a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صیندی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 781
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Forfex”, 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 601
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صندی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2992
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sındı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صندی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1187