قندیل

See also: قنديل

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic قِنْدِيل (qindīl), ultimately from Latin candēla (“candle”).

Noun

قندیل • (kandil or kındil) (plural قنادیل)

1. lamp, especially an oil lamp hanging from the ceiling

   Synonyms: (oil lamp) چراغ (çirag), سراج (sirac), لامپه (lampa), مصباح (misbah)

2. floating firework star, from a rocket or bomb
3. (botany) hanging flower or glumaceous seed vessel
4. floating soap bubble in the air

Derived terms

• قندیلجی (kandilci, “maker or seller of lamps”)
• قندیللك (kandillik, “arrangement for holding a lamp”)
• قندیللو (kandilli, “illuminated by a lamp”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kandil
• → Albanian: kandil
• → Armenian: խանտիլ (xantil), կանդիլ (kandil)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kandil”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2382
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قندیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 973
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lucerna”, 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 975
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قندیل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 3769–3770
• Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 46
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kandil”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قندیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1478

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قِنْدِيل (qindīl), see there for further information.

Noun

قندیل • (qandil) (plural قندیل‌ها (qandil-hâ))

1. (archaic) lamp

   Synonym: چراغ (čerâğ)

2. (archaic) torch

   Synonym: مشعل (maš'al)

3. (archaic) candlestick, candelabrum

   Synonyms: چراغدان (čerâğdân), شمعدان (šam’dân)

4. icicle

   Synonyms: کلفخشنگ (kalafaxšang), دنگاله (dangâle), دنگداله (dangdâle)

Descendants

• → Baluchi: کندیل (kandill)
• → Gujarati: કંદીલ (kandīl)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: क़ंदील (qandīl), क़िंदील (qindīl)

  Urdu: قندیل

• → Kannada: ಕಂದೀಲು (kandīlu)
• → Marathi: कंदील (kandīl)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਕੰਦੀਲ (kandīl)

  Shahmukhi script: قَندِیل (qandīl)