آژنك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian آژنگ (ažang, “wrinkle, crease”).

Noun

آژنگ • (ajeng)

1. wrinkle, a line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue

   Synonyms: بورتق (burtuk), بورشق (buruşuk)

Descendants

• Turkish: ajeng

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ajeng”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 161
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آژنك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 18
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “âjeng”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[2] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 26
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ruga”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1494
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آژنك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 167
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آژنك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 83