طبانجه

Ottoman Turkish

طبانجه

طبانجه

Alternative forms

• طابانجه (tabanca), طبنجه (tabanca)
• թապանճա (tabanca) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From طبان (taban, “sole of a foot”) +‎ ـجه (-ca).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑ.ˈbɑn.dʒɑ/

Noun

طبانجه • (tabanca)

1. palm of the hand
2. slap, box with the flat hand
3. (firearms) trigger, lock of a gun, what the hand reaches for on a firearm to launch it [from 17th c.]
4. (firearms) pistol, handgun [from 18th c.]

Descendants

• Turkish: tabanca
• → Egyptian Arabic: طبنجة (ṭabanga)
• → North Levantine Arabic: طبنجة (ṭabanje)
• → Armenian: տապանճա (tapanča), տաբանջա (tabanǰa), թափանջա (tʻapʻanǰa), դաբանչա (dabančʻa)
• → Georgian: დამბაჩა (dambača)
• → Northern Kurdish: demance, damance, damançe, dabance, dabançe, damance, damançe, dapance, dapançe, davance, davançe, dawance, dawançe, debance, debançe, demançe, depance, depançe, devance, devançe, dewance, dewançe
• → Ossetian: дамбаца (dambaca)
• → Persian: تپانچه (tapânče), طپانچه (tapânče) (dated spelling), تپنچه (tapanče), تمنچه (tamanča), تفنگچه (tufangča) (Dari)
  • → Azerbaijani: tapança
    • → Armenian: թափանչա (tʻapʻančʻa), թարփանչա (tʻarpʻančʻa)
  • → Gujarati: તમંચો (tamañco)
  • → Hindustani:

    Urdu: تَپَنْچَہ (tapanca), تَمَنْچَہ (tamanca)

    Hindi: तमंचा (tamañcā)

  • → Kazakh: тапанша (tapanşa)
  • → Pashto: تمانچه (tamānčá), تومانچه (tomānčá), تپانچه (tapānčá), توپنچه (topančá)
  • → Uyghur: تاپانچا (tapancha)
  • → Uzbek: toʻpponcha

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طابانجه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 787
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طبانجه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 3083
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طبنجه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3088
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طبانجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1231
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “طبانجه”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 594