میمونجق

Ottoman Turkish

میمونجقلر

Etymology

From میمون (maymun, “monkey”) +‎ ـجق (-cuk, diminutive suffix).

Noun

میمونجق • (maymuncuk)

Diminutive of میمون (maymun, “monkey”):
1. lock pick, picklock, any device used to unlock a lock without using a key

Descendants

Turkish: maymuncuk

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “maymuncuk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3089
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “میمونجق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1257
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “میمونجق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2056

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