مهنك

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• محك (mehek)

Etymology

Vulgarized form of Arabic مِحَكّ (miḥakk, “touchstone”).

Noun

مهنك • (mehenk)

1. touchstone, a stone used to check the quality of gold alloys
2. (figuratively) test or examination of a person's worth or morality

Derived terms

• مهنكجی (mehenkci, “goldsmith who tests metals”)

Descendants

• Turkish: mihenk
• → Armenian: մէհէնկ (mēhēnk)
• → Romanian: mehenghi

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mehenk1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3113
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مهنك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1254
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lapis Lydius”, 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 914
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “محك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4451
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mihenk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مهنك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2048