منجنیق

See also: منجنيق

Ottoman Turkish

منجنیق

Alternative forms

• منجلیق (mancılık)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَنْجَنِيق (manjanīq, “ballista, catapult”), ultimately from Ancient Greek μαγγανικά (manganiká).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛnd͡ʒɛˈnik/
• (vulgarly also) IPA^(key): /mɑnd͡ʒɑˈnɯk/, /mɑnd͡ʒɑˈɫɯk/

Noun

منجنیق • (mencenik or mancınık) (definite accusative منجنیغی (menceniği), plural منجنیقات (mencenikat))

1. trebuchet, ballista, catapult, mangonel, siege engine, any large weapon for throwing objects

   Synonym: چرخ (çarh)

2. jackscrew, screwjack, a mechanical lifting device which is operated by turning a leadscrew

Derived terms

• منجنیقجی (mencenikci, “worker of ballistas or jackscrews”)
• منجنیقدن آتمق (mencenikden atmak, “to throw a man from a ballista”)
• منجنیقی (mencenikî, “pertaining to a ballista”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: mancınık, mancılık

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mancınık1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3045
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “منجنیق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 462b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “منجنیق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1230
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Manganum”, 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 1002
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “منجنیق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4946
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mancınık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “منجنیق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1994