teneke
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Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ottoman Turkish تنكه, from Persian تنگه, from Persian تنک (tonok, “تنک”, literally “thin”), from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us (“thin”).
Adjective[edit]
teneke
- made of tinplate
Noun[edit]
teneke (definite accusative tenekeyi, plural tenekelar)
Declension[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “teneke”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “teneke”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تنكه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 602