دینج

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• دنج (dinc)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tïŋ (“strong, energetic”); cognate with Kazakh тың (tyñ), Kyrgyz тың (tıŋ) and Southern Altai тыҥ (tïŋ).

Adjective

دینج • (dinc)

1. lively, vigorous, vivacious, brisk, energetic, sprightly, animated, spirited, characterised by force or vigour, full of energy

   Synonyms: جانلو (canlı), دیری (diri), زنده (zinde)

Derived terms

• دینجلك (dinclik, “vigor, vivacity, liveliness”)
• دینجلنمك (dinclenmek, “to become vigorous or lively”)

Descendants

• Turkish: dinç
• → Armenian: տինճ (tinč), դինջ (dinǰ)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “دینج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 785
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dinç”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1228
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دنج”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 230b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دینج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 601
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vegetus”, 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 1722
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دنج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2146
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dinç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دینج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 940