نهنگ
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Persian نهنگ (nahang, “crocodile”).
Noun edit
نهنگ • (neheng)
- crocodile, alligator any of various large reptiles in the order Crocodilia
- Synonym: تمساح (timsah)
Descendants edit
- Turkish: neheng
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “neheng”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3516
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نهنگ”, 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) “نهنگ”, 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) “نهنگ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2117
Persian edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Persian 𐫗𐫍𐫗𐫃 (nhng /nihang/, “crocodile”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [na.ˈhanɡ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [næ.ɦǽɲɡʲ̥]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [nä.ɦǽŋɡ]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | nahang |
| Dari reading? | nahang |
| Iranian reading? | nahang |
| Tajik reading? | nahang |
Noun edit
نهنگ • (nahang) (plural نهنگها (nahang-hâ) or نهنگان (nahangân))
- (archaic) crocodile or hippopotamus
- whale
- Synonym: وال (vâl, “whale”)
Descendants edit
References edit
- Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004) “nhng”, in A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols, page 242
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “نهنگ”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press