پنكان
See also: پنگان
Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]From Persian پنگان (pengân). Doublet of فنجان (fincan).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]پنگان or پنكان • (pingân or pinkân)
- cup, bowl
- cupping jar
- 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 2⁄3 seconds, 1⁄10000 of a day
- a measure of time equalling 8 2⁄3 seconds, 1⁄10000 of a day
References
[edit]- 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