چنك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian (čang, “claw, talon; lyre, harp”).

Noun

چنك • (çenk)

claw, talon of a bird
Synonyms: پنچه (pençe), طرمیق (tırmık), طرناق (tırnak)
crook used by an elephant's driver
lyre, harp

Descendants

Turkish: çenk

Adjective

چنك • (çenk)

curved, crooked, humped

Further reading

Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چنك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 1663–1664
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چنك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 732

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