پركار

See also: پرکار and پرگار

Ottoman Turkish

پرگار

Alternative forms

• پرگال (pergel)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پرگار (pargâr, “pair of compasses”).

Noun

پرگار • (perger)

1. pair of compasses, a tool for drawing accurate circles or arches

Derived terms

• پرگارلاتمق (pergerletmek, “to make or let be measured by compasses”)
• پرگارلامق (pergerlemek, “to measure with a pair of compasses”)
• پرگارلانمق (pergerlenmek, “to be measured with a pair of compasses”)
• پرگاروار (pergervar, “like a pair of compasses”)
• پرگاری (pergeri, “drawn with compasses”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: pergel
• → Egyptian Arabic: برجل (bárgal)
• → Armenian: փերգել (pʻergel), փերկել (pʻerkel)
• → Bulgarian: пергел (pergel)
• → Romanian: perghel

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pergel1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3827
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “پركار”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 114b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پركار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 319
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Circinus”, 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 181
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پركار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 780
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pergel”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پركار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 443