سندو

Karakhanid

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Chinese 剪刀 (MC tsjenX taw, “scissors”). Similarity to سنماق (sïnmāq, “to be broken”) is coincidental.

Noun

سِنْدُو (sïndū)

1. scissors, shears

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “sındu:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 836
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sındı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 418