قرنجه
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *karïnčga (“ant”); cognate with Azerbaijani qarınca, Crimean Tatar qarınca and Turkmen garynja.
Noun
[edit]قرنجه • (karınca)
- ant, any of various insects in the family Formicidae
- formication, an abnormal skin sensation in a numbed limb
- honeycomb holes of a metal or other material
Derived terms
[edit]- قرنجه باغی (karınca bağı, “chloroform”)
- قرنجهلاشمق (karıncalaşmak, “to formicate”)
- قرنجهلانمق (karıncalanmak, “to become infested with ants”)
- قرنجهلق (karıncalık, “anthill”)
- قرنجهلو (karıncalı, “infested with ants”)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karınca”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2436
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Formica”, 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[1], Vienna, column 602
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قرنجه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, column 3678
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “karınca1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قرنجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1450