قانجه

Ottoman Turkish

قانجه

Etymology 1

From Venetan ganzo, from Proto-Celtic *ganskyos (“branch, twig”).

Alternative forms

• قنجه (kanca, kance)

Noun

قانجه • (kanca, kance) (plural قانجه‌لر (kancalar))

1. large hook, as a boathook, a meat hook, or a pothook

   Synonyms: چنگل (çengel), قلاب (kullab)

Derived terms

• ال قانجه‌سی (el kancası, “kind of small hook”)
• قانجه آتمق (kanca atmak, “to throw out a hook”)
• قانجه‌باش (kancabaş, “ship of a curved prow”)
• قانجه‌لاتمق (kancalatmak, “to make or let be grappled with a hook”)
• قانجه‌لامق (kancalamak, “to grapple with a hook”)
• قانجه‌لو (kancalı, “provided with hooks”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kanca
• → Arabic: قَنْجَة (qanja, “a kind of sailing boat of up to two masts used for housing and for pleasure-trips”), غَنْجَة (ḡanja)
  • → English: cangia
  • → French: cange
  • → Italian: cangia
    • → Spanish: canja
• → Armenian: խանճա (xanča)
• → Aromanian: cánǧe, gánǧe
• → Albanian: ganxhë, kanxhë
• → Bulgarian: ка́нджа (kándža)
• → Greek: γάντζα (gántza), κάντζα (kántza)
• → Macedonian: канџа (kandža)
• → Romanian: cange
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ка̑нџа

  Latin script: kȃndža

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1951) “խանճա”, in Ewropakan pʻoxaṙeal baṙer hayerēni mēǰ [European Loanwords in Armenian] (Azgayin matenadaran; 166) (in Armenian), published from the author's manuscript submitted in 1921, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 95
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kanca2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2380
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قانجه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 937
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Uncus”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1781
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قانجه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3600
• Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 48
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kanca”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قانجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1426

Etymology 2

Adverb

قانجه • (kanca, kance)

1. alternative form of قانی (kanı, hanı, hani, “where”)

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قانجه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 3600
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قانجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1426