كوكرجینلك
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From گوگرجین (güvercin, “rock dove, pigeon”) + ـلك (-lik, luk).
Noun
[edit]گوگرجینلك • (güvercinlik)
- (historical) dovecote, a tower-like structure in which pigeons were kept
- pepperbox, a tower capped by a cupola, looking similar to a giant pepper shaker
- Martello tower, a short, sturdy, round masonry fort, usually built along the coast
- (nautical) small locker in the extreme stern of a Bosporus caique
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: güvercinlik
- → Armenian: կիւվէրճինլիխ (kiwvērčinlix)
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “güvercinlik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1815
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوكرجینلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1056
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Columbarium”, 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 206
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوكرجینلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 4086
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوكرجینلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1597