sancı

See also: sanci and sancì

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صنجی‎ (sancı), from the same root as sançmak (“to stab”).

Noun

sancı (definite accusative sancıyı, plural sancılar)

a pain in the gut: colic, stomach ache, labor pain, etc.
- 1939 September 4, advertisement on page 6 of Cumhuriyet:
  Kanzuk URİNAL. Karaciger, böbrek, taş ve kumlarından mütevellid sancılarınız, damar sertlikleri ve şişmanlık şikâyetlerinizi URİNAL ile geciriniz.
  (please add an English translation of this quote)

References

Kélékian, Diran (1911), “سجنی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 661
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “sancı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “صنجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1162
Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

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