نهنگ
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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
Categories:
- Ottoman Turkish terms borrowed from Persian
- Ottoman Turkish terms derived from Persian
- Ottoman Turkish lemmas
- Ottoman Turkish nouns
- ota:Reptiles
- Persian terms inherited from Middle Persian
- Persian terms derived from Middle Persian
- Persian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Persian lemmas
- Persian nouns
- Persian terms with archaic senses
- fa:Cetaceans