پرچین

Ottoman Turkish

پرچینلر

Alternative forms

• برچین (berçin)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پرچین (parčin, “hook, nail; to put together”).

Noun

پرچین • (perçin) (definite accusative پرچینی (perçini), plural پرچینلر (perçinler))

1. rivet, a kind of permanent, mechanical fastener with a cylindrical shaft

   Synonym: چیوی (çivi)

2. clenching, riveting, the act by which something is clenched or riveted

Derived terms

• پرچین ایتمك (perçin etmek, “to rivet, clench”)
• پرچینلتمك (perçinletmek, “to make or let be clenched”)
• پرچینلمك (perçinlemek, “to rivet, clench”)
• پرچینلنمك (perçinlenmek, “to be clenched”)
• پرچینلو (perçinli, “furnished with rivets”)
• پول پرچین (pul perçin, “clenching-ring”)

Descendants

• Turkish: perçin
• → Albanian: perçin
• → Armenian: փէռչին (pʻēṙčʻin), փէրչին (pʻērčʻin), փառչին (pʻaṙčʻin)
• → Greek: πριτσίνι (pritsíni)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881), “پرچین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 392
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “perçin1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3822
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “پرچین”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 113a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “پرچین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 318
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “پرچین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 757
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “perçin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “پرچین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 440