پرانقه

Ottoman Turkish

پرانقه

Alternative forms

• پرانغه (pranga)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian branca (“claw, talon; branch”).

Noun

پرانقه • (pranka)

1. chain and log fastened to a culprit's leg, a kind of wooden fetter or leg irons

   Synonym: طومروق (tomruk)

2. penitentiary, penal colony, a prison where inmates are forced to labour
3. (by extension) forced labor, work which one is compelled to perform against one's will

Descendants

• Turkish: pranga
• → Albanian: pranga
• → Armenian: փըռանկա (pʻəṙanka) — Constantinople

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pranga”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3893
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پرانقه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 318
• Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “pranga”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 127
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pranga”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پرانقه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 440