چنكل

See also: چنگل

Ottoman Turkish

چنگل

Alternative forms

• چنگال (çengel)

Etymology

From Persian چنگال (čangâl, “fork; hook; claw”).

Noun

چنگل • (çengel)

1. hook, a rod bent into a curved shape

   Synonyms: قانجه (kanca), قلاب (kullab)

2. (figuratively) one's power or possession
3. (botany) any large thorn shaped like a hook

Derived terms

• دیوار چنگلی (divar çengeli, “hook fastened in a wall”)
• قایق چنگلی (kayık çengeli, “boathook”)
• چنگل ساقزی (çengel sakızı, “juice of a kind of thistle”)
• چنگلستان (çengelistan, “jungle of thorny bushes”)
• چنگلسز (çengelsiz, “hookless; thornless”)
• چنگللمك (çengellemek, “to hook”)
• چنگللنمك (çengellenmek, “to be hooked”)
• چنگللو (çengelli, “furnished with hooks”)
• چنگله آصمق (çengele asmak, “to hang up on a hook”)
• چنگله دونمك (çengele dönmek, “to slouch due to illness or age”)
• چنگله گلمك (çengele gelmek, “to be hung”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: çengel
• → Albanian: çengel, çengë
• → Arabic: شَنْكَل (šankal)
• → Armenian: չէնկէլ (čʻēnkēl)
• → Aromanian: cinǵéľu
• → Bulgarian: ченге́л (čengél)
• → Greek: τσιγκέλι (tsigkéli)
• → Macedonian: ченгел (čengel)
• → Romanian: cinghel, cinghil
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: чѐнгел

  Latin script: čèngel

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çengel1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 931
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چنكل”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 189a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چنكل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 476
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Uncus”, 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 1781
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چنكل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1664
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çengel”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چنكل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 732