سونكو

Ottoman Turkish

سونكو

Alternative forms

• سنكو (süngü), سونكی (süngü)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *süŋgü (“lance, spear”); cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (süŋüg), Azerbaijani süngü, Bashkir һөңгө (höñgö), Chuvash сăнă (sănă), Kazakh сүңгі (süñgı), Tatar сөңге (söñge) and Yakut үҥүү (üñüü).

Noun

سونكو • (süngü) (definite accusative سونكویی (süngüyü), plural سونكولر (süngüler))

1. anything that presents itself straight at or before one:
   1. bayonet, a pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle

      Synonym: تفنك سونكوسی (tüfenk süngüsü)

   2. spine, a series of bones situated at the back from the head to the pelvis of a human

      Synonym: اوكورغه (oñurga)

   3. awn, arista, the bristle or beard of various grasses, or any similar bristlelike appendage

      Synonym: قیلچیق (kılçık)

   4. pikehead, the pointed head or end of a pike, used to thrust people in European warfare

Derived terms

• تفنك سونكوسی (tüfenk süngüsü, “bayonet”)
• سونكو اوتی (süngü otu, “bird's foot”)
• سونكو دیرسكی (süngü dirseği, “bayonet's elbow”)
• سونكو طاورانمق (süngü davranmak, “to charge the bayonet”)
• سونكو قوغانی (süngü koğanı, “bayonet's ferrule”)
• سونكو ناملوسی (süngü namlısı, “bayonet's blade”)
• سونكوسی آغر (süngüsü ağır, “slow-moving”)
• سونكولمك (süngülemek, “to bayonet”)
• مزراق سونكوسی (mızrak süngüsü, “spear head”)
• وجودك سونكوسی (vücuduñ süngüsü, “vertebra”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: süngü
• → Albanian: syngji
• → Arabic: سُونْكِيّ (sunkiyy), سُنْكِيّ (sunkiyy)
• → Armenian: սո̈ւնկո̈ւ (sünkü), սունկու (sunku)
• → Swahili: singe

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “سونكو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 116
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “süngü1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4381
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سونكو”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 280b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سونكو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 703
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “süngü”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سونكو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1095