minci

See also: mincí and -minci

French

Participle

minci (feminine mincie, masculine plural mincis, feminine plural mincies)

1. past participle of mincir

Further reading

• “minci”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Slovak

Noun

minci

1. dative/locative singular of minca

Turkish

Alternative forms

• minzi, mıncı, minçi, minsi

Etymology

Compare Laz მინჯი (minci), მინძი (minżi, “curds; unsalted cheese”), Armenian մինծի (minci), մինձի (minji), Pontic Greek μιντζίν (mintzín), Greek μυτζήθρα (mytzíthra). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

minci

1. (dialect, Samsun, Trabzon, Rize, Artvin) skim-milk cheese, a kind of unsalted cheese

   Synonym: çökelek

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “վանձնատ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 305b
• Bläsing, Uwe (1995) Armenisch-Türkisch. Etymologische Betrachtungen ausgehend von Materialien aus dem Hemşingebiet (Dutch Studies in Armenian Language and Literature; 4) (in German), Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 91–92
• Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § E145, page 186
• Emiroğlu, Kudret (1989) “minsi”, in Trabzon-Maçka Etimoloji Sözlüğü [Trabzon-Maçka Etymological Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Sanat Kitabevi, page 182a