میمونجق

Ottoman Turkish

میمونجقلر

Etymology

From میمون (maymun, “monkey”) +‎ ـجق (-cuk, diminutive suffix).

Noun

میمونجق • (maymuncuk) (definite accusative میمونجغی (maymuncuğu), plural میمونجقلر (maymuncuklar))

1. diminutive of میمون (maymun, “monkey”):
   1. lock pick, picklock, any device used to unlock a lock without using a key

Descendants

• Turkish: maymuncuk

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “میمون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 807
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “maymuncuk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3089
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “میمونجق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1257
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “میمونجق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2056