اینجو

Ottoman Turkish

اینجو

Alternative forms

• (later) اینجی (inci)

Etymology

Inherited from Common Turkic *yinǯü, ultimately from Middle Chinese 珍珠 (MC trin tsyu) ~ 眞珠 (MC tsyin tsyu, “genuine pearl”). Cognate with Azerbaijani inci, Bashkir ынйы (ınyı), Kazakh інжу (ınju), Tatar энҗе (ence), Turkmen hünji and Uzbek inju.

Noun

اینجو • (inci, incü)

1. pearl, a shelly and rounded concretion produced by certain mollusks

   Synonyms: در (durr), لؤلؤ (lulu), مروارید (mervarid)

Derived terms

• اینجو دانه‌سی (inci tanesi, “single pearl”)
• اینجو چیچكی (inci çiçeği, “lily of the valley”)
• اینجوجی (incici, “dealer in pearls”)
• اینجولو (incili, “set with pearls”)
• یالانجی اینجو (yalancı inci, “false pearl”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: inci
• → Armenian: ինճի (inči)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “inci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2171
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اینجو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 227
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Margarita”, 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 1011
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اینجو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 615
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “inci”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اینجو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 309
• Tekin, Talat (1997). "Notes on some Chinese Loanwords in Old Turkic", Türk Dilleri Araştırmaları, 7, pp. 165-173.