چنگی

Ottoman Turkish

چنگی

Etymology

From Persian چنگی (čangi).

Noun

چنگی • (çengi)

  1. public dancer

Descendants

  • Turkish: çengi
  • Aromanian: cinghíe
  • Bulgarian: чинги́я (čingíja)
  • Macedonian: ченгија (čengija)
  • Romanian: cinghíe
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: чѐнгија
    Latin script: čèngija

References

  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “482. ČINGÍE, sb. f. pl. činǵiǐ, -urǐ”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 110

Persian

Etymology

چنگ (čang) + ـی (i).

Noun

چنگی • (čangi)

  1. harper, lutanist
  2. public dancer

Descendants

Further reading

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “چنگی”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • Vullers, Johann August (1855) “چنگی”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 596a
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