ولنچه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From obsolete Italian valènza, valència (a thick woolen blanket; a sort of cloth), from the city name Valencia in Catalonia. Also found as Armenian վալանցա (valancʿa), Armeno-Kipchak վելենձա (velenca), վելանձա (velanca), Bulgarian веленце (velence), Macedonian веленце (velence), Serbo-Croatian vàlīnca, velènca, Polish welenc, welens, Romanian velință, veleanță, Greek βελέντζα (veléntza), Albanian velenxë, levënxë, Hungarian velence.

Noun

ولنچه (velençe)

  1. a thick woolen blanket having a long nap on one side

Descendants

  • Turkish: velense
  • Bulgarian: веле́нче (velénče)

Alternative forms

Further reading

  • Eren, Hasan (1999), velense”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 435a
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911), ولنسه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1315b
  • Rocchi, Luciano (2011), valensa, velense”, in Il dizionario turco-ottomano di Arcangelo Carradori (1650) (in Italian), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 338
  • Luciano, Rocchi (2013), “Gli italianismi nei testi turchi in trascrizione”, in Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie (in Italian), volume 129, issue 4, § 147, page 921–922
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), ولنچه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5413
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890), ولنچه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2149a
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