طبانجه
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Ottoman Turkish
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Alternative forms
[edit]- طابانجه (tabanca), طبنجه (tabanca)
- թապանճա (tabanca) — Armeno-Turkish
Etymology
[edit]From طبان (taban, “sole of a foot”) + ـجه (-ca).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]طبانجه • (tabanca)
- palm of the hand
- slap, box with the flat hand
- (firearms) trigger, lock of a gun, what the hand reaches for on a firearm to launch it [from 17th c.]
- (firearms) pistol, handgun [from 18th c.]
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: tabanca
- → Egyptian Arabic: طبنجة (ṭabanga)
- → North Levantine Arabic: طبنجة (ṭabanje)
- → Armenian: տապանճա (tapanča), տաբանջա (tabanǰa), թափանջա (tʻapʻanǰa), դաբանչա (dabančʻa)
- → Georgian: დამბაჩა (dambača)
- → Northern Kurdish: demance, damance, damançe, dabance, dabançe, damance, damançe, dapance, dapançe, davance, davançe, dawance, dawançe, debance, debançe, demançe, depance, depançe, devance, devançe, dewance, dewançe
- → Ossetian: дамбаца (dambaca)
- → Persian: تپانچه (tapânče), طپانچه (tapânče) (dated spelling); تپنچه (tapanče), تمنچه (tamanča); تفنگچه (tufangča) (Dari)
References
[edit]- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طابانجه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 787
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طبانجه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, column 3083
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طبنجه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 3088
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طبانجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1231
- Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “طبانجه”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 594