منكنه

See also: منگنه

Ottoman Turkish

منكنه

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek μάγγανον (mánganon, “bolt; catapult; block of a pulley”).

Noun

منكنه • (mengene) (definite accusative منكنه‌یی (mengeneyi), plural منكنه‌لر (mengeneler))

1. any mechanical appliance for exerting pressure or delivering a sudden blow, such as a press, a punch, a mangle, etc.

   Synonyms: باصقی (baskı), جندره (cendere) (press)

Derived terms

• ال منكنه‌سی (el mengenesi, “hand-press”)
• اوزوم منكنه‌سی (üzüm mengenesi, “wine press”)
• جراح منكنه‌سی (cerrâh mengenesi, “mechanical forceps”)
• دمیرجی منكنه‌سی (demirci mengenesi, “smith's vice”)
• دیشجی منكنه‌سی (dişci mengenesi, “dentist's forceps”)
• قانجی منكنه‌سی (kancı mengenesi, “spring cupping instrument”)
• مارانغوز منكنه‌سی (marangoz mengenesi, “carpenter's clamp”)
• منكنه‌لمك (mengenelemek, “to press, to full”)
• منكنه‌لو (mengeneli, “furnished with a mechanical press”)
• چاماشیر منكنه‌سی (çamaşır mengenesi, “mangle”)

Descendants

• Turkish: mengene
• → Armenian: մենկենե (menkene), մանգյանա (mangyana)
• → Bulgarian: ме́нгеме (méngeme)
• → Macedonian: менгеме (mengeme)
• → Persian: منگنه (mangane)
• → Romanian: menghină
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ме̏нгеле, ме̑нгеле

  Latin script: mȅngele, mȇngele

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “منكنه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 791
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “منكنه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 465b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “منكنه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1238
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Torcular”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1678
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “منكنه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4986
• 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–) “mengene”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “منكنه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2013
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “منكنه”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 888