قانجه

Ottoman Turkish

قانجه

Etymology 1

From Venetian ganzo, from Proto-Celtic *ganskyos (“branch, twig”).

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

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