قانجه

Ottoman Turkish

قانجه

Etymology 1

From Venetian ganzo.

Alternative forms

Noun

قانجه (kanca, kance) (plural قانجه‌لر (kancalar))

  1. large hook, as a boathook, a meat hook, or a pothook
    Synonyms: چنگل (çengel), قلاب (kullab)
Derived terms
  • ال قانجه‌سی (el kancası, kind of small hook)
  • قانجه آتمق (kanca atmak, to throw out a hook)
  • قانجه‌باش (kancabaş, ship of a curved prow)
  • قانجه‌لاتمق (kancalatmak, to make or let be grappled with a hook)
  • قانجه‌لامق (kancalamak, to grapple with a hook)
  • قانجه‌لو (kancalı, provided with hooks)
Descendants
  • Turkish: kanca
  • Arabic: قَنْجَة (qanja, a kind of sailing boat of up to two masts used for housing and for pleasure-trips), غَنْجَة (ḡanja)
  • Armenian: խանճա (xanča)
  • Aromanian: cánǧe, gánǧe
  • Albanian: ganxhë, kanxhë
  • Bulgarian: ка́нджа (kándža)
  • Greek: γάντζα (gántza), κάντζα (kántza)
  • Macedonian: канџа (kandža)
  • Romanian: cange
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ка̑нџа
    Latin script: kȃndža

Further reading

Adverb

قانجه (kanca, kance)

  1. alternative form of قانی (kanı, hanı, hani, where)

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.