قانجیق

Ottoman Turkish

قانجیق

Alternative forms

• قانجق (kancık)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kančïk (“bitch; female”); cognate with Azerbaijani qancıq, Bashkir ҡансыҡ (qansıq), Kazakh қаншық (qanşyq), Kyrgyz канчык (kancık), Southern Altai канчык (kančïk) and Turkmen ganjyk.

Noun

قانجیق • (kancık)

1. bitch, an adult female of the species Canis lupus

   Synonyms: كلبت (kelbet), ماجان (macian)

2. (zoology) she, any female animal

   Synonym: دشی (dişi)

3. (figuratively) malicious or perverse woman

   Synonym: قالتاق (kaltak)

4. (figuratively) treacherous person, betrayer

Descendants

• Turkish: kancık

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kancık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2380
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قانجق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 285b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قانجیق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 937
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Canis”, 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 142
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قانجق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3599
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kancık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قانجیق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1424