قرنجه‌لق

Ottoman Turkish

قرنجه‌لق

Etymology

From قرنجه‎ (karınca, “ant”) +‎ ـلق‎ (-lık, -luk).

Noun

قرنجه‌لق • (karıncalık)

anthill, a cone-shaped structure built by ants

Descendants

→ Armenian: խառընճալըխ (xaṙənčaləx)

Further reading

Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قرنجه‌لق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3678

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