لنگر

Ottoman Turkish

لنگر

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian لنگر (langar, “anchor”).

Noun

لنگر • (lenger)

1. (nautical) anchor, a tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of the sea

   Synonym: دمیر (demir)

2. hospice where poor and indigent people are fed for free every day
3. kind of large and deep dish with a border four or five inches high or wide

Derived terms

• لنگر بوصه‌سی (lenger bosası, “stopper of a cable”)
• لنگر دار (lenger-dar, “anchored”)
• لنگر قرار (lenger-karar, “permanently fixed for a stay”)
• لنگر گاه (lenger-gah, “anchorage”)
• لنگرلو (lengerli, “staid, grave, steady”)
• لنگری (lengeri, “pertaining to a hospice”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: lenger
• → Armenian: լէնկէռ (lēnkēṙ)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “lenger”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2955
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “لنگر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 412b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لنگر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1081
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Anchora”, 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 61
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “لنگر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4201
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “lenger”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لنگر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1643

Persian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄγκῡρα (ánkūra).

Alternately of Iranian origin, cognate with Sanskrit लङ्गल (laṅgala).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [lan.ɡaɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [läŋ.ɡäɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [läŋ.ɡäɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [läŋ.ɡäɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [läŋ.ɡäɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [læɲ.ɡʲæɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [läŋ.ɡäɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	langar
Iranian reading?	langar
Tajik reading?	langar

Noun

Dari	لنگر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	лангар

لنگر • (langar) (plural لنگرها (langar-hâ))

1. (nautical, Internet) anchor

Derived terms

• لنگرگاه (langargâh)
• لنگر انداختن (langar andâxtan)
• لنگر افکندن (langar afkandan)

Descendants

• → Arabic: أَنْجَر (ʔanjar)
• → Gujarati: લંગર (laṅgar)
• → Ottoman Turkish: لنگر (lenger)
  • Turkish: lenger
  • → Armenian: լէնկէռ (lēnkēṙ)
• → Uyghur: لەڭگەر (lengger)
  • → Mandarin: 蘭干 (Lángān)