چنك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian چنگ (čang, “claw, talon; lyre, harp”).

Noun

چنك • (çenk)

1. claw, talon of a bird

   Synonyms: پنچه (pençe), طرمیق (tırmık), طرناق (tırnak)

2. crook used by an elephant's driver
3. lyre, harp

Descendants

• Turkish: çenk

Adjective

چنك • (çenk)

1. curved, crooked, humped

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چنك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, columns 1663–1664
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چنك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 732