لونجه
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from either Italian loggia (“loge; lodge”) or Greek λόντζα (lóntza). Doublet of لوجه (loca, “loge; lodge”).
Noun
لونجه • (lonca)
- guild, corporation, any association of artisans and merchants who oversee the practice of their craft or trade
- (by extension) guildhall, hanse, a hall, building, or palace where a guild or corporation usually assembles
Descendants
- Turkish: lonca
- → Armenian: լօնճա (lōnča)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “lonca”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2978
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لونجه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1084
- Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “londja”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 317
- Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 44
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “lonca”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لونجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1645
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.