نهنك

See also: نهنگ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian نهنگ (nahang, “crocodile”).

Noun

نهنگ • (neheng)

1. crocodile, alligator any of various large reptiles in the order Crocodilia

   Synonym: تمساح (timsah)

Descendants

• Turkish: neheng

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “neheng”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3516
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نهنك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1293
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Crocodillus”, 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 303
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “نهنك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 5292
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نهنك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2117