ناجاق

Ottoman Turkish

ناجاق

Alternative forms

• نجق (nacak)

Etymology

From Persian ناچخ (nâčax, “polearm, halberd”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nad͡ʒak/

Noun

ناجاق • (nacak)

1. poleaxe, a large battle-axe having both a blade and a hammer face

Descendants

• Turkish: nacak
• → Bats: ნაჯაჴ (naǯaq)
• → Belarusian: нажда́к (naždák)
• → Bulgarian: наджа́к (nadžák)
• → Gagauz: nacak
• → Georgian: ნაჯახი (naǯaxi)
• → Laz: ნაჯაღი (nacaği)
• → Macedonian: наџак (nadžak)
• → Middle Armenian: նաճախ (načax)
  • Armenian: նաջախ (naǰax), նաճախ (načax)
• → Russian: нажда́к (naždák)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: на̀џак

  Latin script: nàdžak

• → Ukrainian: нажда́к (naždák)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nacak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3473
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “ناجاق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 473b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ناجاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1259
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Malleus militaris”, 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 994
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ناجاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5086
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “nacak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ناجاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2061