پرانقه
Ottoman Turkish
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Alternative forms
[edit]- پرانغه (pranga)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian branca (“claw, talon; branch”).
Noun
[edit]پرانقه • (pranka)
- chain and log fastened to a culprit's leg, a kind of wooden fetter or leg irons
- Synonym: طومروق (tomruk)
- penitentiary, penal colony, a prison where inmates are forced to labour
- (by extension) forced labor, work which one is compelled to perform against one's will
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: pranga
- → Albanian: pranga
- → Armenian: փըռանկա (pʻəṙanka) — Constantinople
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pranga”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3893
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پرانقه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 318
- Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “pranga”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 127
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pranga”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پرانقه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 440