كمانچه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كمان (keman, “archery bow; violin, fiddle”) +‎ ـچه (-çe, diminutive suffix for Persian words).

Noun

كمانچه • (kemençe)

1. a little archery bow
2. a bow used for carding cotton or wool
3. a long, curved tail to an official signature
4. a small-sized violin

Derived terms

• كامنچه‌جی (kemençeci)

Descendants

• → Armenian: քեմենչե (kʻemenčʻe)

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كمانچه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, columns 4013–4014
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كمانچه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1570