قرنجه‌لق

Ottoman Turkish

قرنجه‌لق

Etymology

From قرنجه (karınca, “ant”) +‎ ـلق (-lık, -luk).

Noun

قرنجه‌لق • (karıncalık)

1. anthill, a cone-shaped structure built by ants

Descendants

• → Armenian: խառընճալըխ (xaṙənčaləx)

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قرنجه‌لق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 3678