اشكنجه
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- اسكنجه (iskence)
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (şikence, “torture”) or [script needed] (işkenci), from Persian شکنجه (šekanje, “torment; torture”), اشکنجه (eškanje). Cognate with Azerbaijani işgəncə.
Noun
[edit]اشكنجه • (işkence) (definite accusative اشكنجهیی (işkenceyi), plural اشكنجهلر (işkenceler))
- torture, the infliction of severe pain or anguish, especially as an interrogation technique or punishment
- Synonym: عذاب (ʼazab)
- clamp, vice, a brace, band, or clasp used for strengthening or holding things or objects in fixed position
Derived terms
[edit]- اشكنجه ایتمك (işkence etmek, “to torture, torment”)
- اشكنجه ویرمك (işkence vermek, “to torture, torment”)
- اشكنجه چكمك (işkence çekmek, “to be tormented”)
- اشكنجهده اولمق (işkencede olmak, “to torment oneself”)
- طاس اشكنجهسی (tas işkencesi, “torture of the hot bowl”)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “اشكنجه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 63
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “işkence”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2255
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اشكنجه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 42a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اشكنجه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 98
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tortura”, 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 1681
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اشكنجه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 244
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “işkence”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اشكنجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 123