پنكان

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See also: پنگان

Ottoman Turkish

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پنگان
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Etymology

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From Persian پنگان (pengân). Doublet of فنجان (fincan).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pinˈɟɑn/, /pinˈcɑn/

Noun

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پنگان or پنكان (pingân or pinkân)

  1. cup, bowl
  2. cupping jar
  3. water clock, clepsydra, being a bronze cup with a small hole in the bottom used for measuring time by placing it into water, it filled in 8 23 seconds, 110000 of a day
  4. a measure of time equalling 8 23 seconds, 110000 of a day

References

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  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پنكان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 325a
  • 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 51
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پنكان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, column 903
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “پنكان”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 212