نهنك
See also: نهنگ
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian نَهَنْگ (nahang, “crocodile”).
Noun
[edit]نهنگ • (neheng)
- crocodile, alligator any of various large reptiles in the order Crocodilia
- Synonym: تمساح (timsah)
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “neheng”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3516
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “نهنك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1293
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Crocodillus”, 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[2], Vienna, column 303
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “نهنك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 5292
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “نهنك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2117