سنجاق

Ottoman Turkish

سنجاق

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sančgak (lance, streamer attached to a spear) and thus sharing the same root of صانجیمق (sancımak, to stab, stick a sharp pointed thing into) and صنجی (sancı, pain in the gut).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɑnd͡ʒɑk/

Noun

سنجاق • (sancak)

  1. flag, banner, standard, ensign, especially the Ottoman standard
    Synonyms: بیراق (bayrak), رایت (rayet), علم (ʿalem), لوا (liva)
  2. sanjak, the second level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire
    Synonym: لوا (liva)
  3. (nautical) starboard, the righthand side of a ship when facing the front

Derived terms

  • سنجاق اچمق (sancak açmak, to unfurl a flag)
  • سنجاق بكی (sancak beği, governor of a sanjak)
  • سنجاق شریف (sancak-ı şerif, the sacred banner of Mohammed)
  • سنجاق چكمك (sancak çekmek, to hoist up a flag)
  • سنجاقدار (sancakdar, flag-bearer)

Descendants

  • Turkish: sancak
  • Albanian: sanxhak
  • Arabic: سَنْجَق (sanjaq)
  • Armenian: սանջակ (sanǰak), սանճախ (sančax)
  • Belarusian: санджа́к (sandžák)
  • Bulgarian: санджа́к (sandžák)
  • Czech: sandžak
  • English: sanjak, sanjakate
  • French: sandjak, sangiac
  • German: Sandschak
  • Hungarian: szandzsák
  • Italian: sangiacco
  • Kazakh: санжақ (sanjaq)
  • Macedonian: санџак (sandžak)
  • Polish: sandżak
  • Portuguese: sanjaco
  • Romanian: sangeac
  • Russian: санджа́к (sandžák)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: са̀нџак
    Latin script: sàndžak
  • Slovak: sandžak
  • Spanish: sanjacado
  • Ukrainian: санджа́к (sandžák)
  • Uyghur: سانجاق (sanjaq)

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

From Turkic.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [sän.d͡ʒɑ́ːq]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [sän.d͡ʒɑ́ːq]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [sän.d͡ʒɔ́ːq]

Readings
Classical reading? sanjāq
Dari reading? sanjāq
Iranian reading? sanjâğ
Tajik reading? sanjoq

Noun

Dari سنجاق
Iranian Persian
Tajik санҷоқ

سنجاق • (sanjâq)

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Derived terms

  • سنجاق سر (sanjâq-sar)
  • سنجاق سینه (sanjâq-sine)
  • سنجاق قفلی (sanjâq-qofli)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سنجاق (sanjāq).

Noun

سنجاق • (sanjāq) m (Hindi spelling संजाक़)

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