سنجاق

Ottoman Turkish

سنجاق

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sančgak (“lance, streamer attached to a spear”) and thus sharing the same root of صانجیمق (sancımak, “to stab, stick a sharp pointed thing into”) and صنجی (sancı, “pain in the gut”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɑnd͡ʒɑk/

Noun

سنجاق • (sancak)

  1. flag, banner, standard, ensign, especially the Ottoman standard
    Synonyms: بیراق (bayrak), رایت (rayet), علم (ʿalem), لوا (liva)
  2. sanjak, the second level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire
    Synonym: لوا (liva)
  3. (nautical) starboard, the righthand side of a ship when facing the front

Derived terms

  • سنجاق اچمق (sancak açmak, “to unfurl a flag”)
  • سنجاق بكی (sancak beği, “governor of a sanjak”)
  • سنجاق شریف (sancak-ı şerif, “the sacred banner of Mohammed”)
  • سنجاق چكمك (sancak çekmek, “to hoist up a flag”)
  • سنجاقدار (sancakdar, “flag-bearer”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: sancak
  • → Albanian: sanxhak
  • → Arabic: سَنْجَق (sanjaq)
  • → Armenian: սանջակ (sanǰak), սանճախ (sančax)
  • → Belarusian: санджа́к (sandžák)
  • → Bulgarian: санджа́к (sandžák)
  • → Czech: sandžak
  • → English: sanjak, sanjakate
  • → French: sandjak, sangiac
  • → German: Sandschak
  • → Hungarian: szandzsák
  • → Italian: sangiacco
  • → Kazakh: санжақ (sanjaq)
  • → Macedonian: санџак (sandžak)
  • → Polish: sandżak
  • → Portuguese: sanjaco
  • → Romanian: sangeac
  • → Russian: санджа́к (sandžák)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: са̀нџак
    Latin script: sàndžak
  • → Slovak: sandžak
  • → Spanish: sanjacado
  • → Ukrainian: санджа́к (sandžák)
  • → Uyghur: سانجاق (sanjaq)

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

From Turkic.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [sän.d͡ʒɑ́ːq]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [sän.d͡ʒɑ́ːq]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [sän.d͡ʒɔ́ːq]

Readings
Classical reading? sanjāq
Dari reading? sanjāq
Iranian reading? sanjâğ
Tajik reading? sanjoq

Noun

Dari سنجاق
Iranian Persian
Tajik санҷоқ

سنجاق • (sanjâq)

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Derived terms

  • سنجاق سر (sanjâq-sar)
  • سنجاق سینه (sanjâq-sine)
  • سنجاق قفلی (sanjâq-qofli)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سنجاق (sanjāq).

Noun

سنجاق • (sanjāq) m (Hindi spelling संजाक़)

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