چنكل

See also: چنگل

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

  • From Persian چنگال (čangâl, fork; hook; claw).

    Noun

    چنگل • (çengel)

    1. hook, a rod bent into a curved shape
      Synonyms: قانجه (kanca), قلاب (kullab)
    2. (figuratively) one's power or possession
    3. (botany) any large thorn shaped like a hook

    Derived terms

    • دیوار چنگلی (divar çengeli, hook fastened in a wall)
    • قایق چنگلی (kayık çengeli, boathook)
    • چنگل ساقزی (çengel sakızı, juice of a kind of thistle)
    • چنگلستان (çengelistan, jungle of thorny bushes)
    • چنگلسز (çengelsiz, hookless; thornless)
    • چنگللمك (çengellemek, to hook)
    • چنگللنمك (çengellenmek, to be hooked)
    • چنگللو (çengelli, furnished with hooks)
    • چنگله آصمق (çengele asmak, to hang up on a hook)
    • چنگله دونمك (çengele dönmek, to slouch due to illness or age)
    • چنگله گلمك (çengele gelmek, to be hung)

    Descendants

    • Turkish: çengel
    • Albanian: çengel, çengë
    • Arabic: شَنْكَل (šankal)
    • Armenian: չէնկէլ (čʻēnkēl)
    • Aromanian: cinǵéľu
    • Bulgarian: ченге́л (čengél)
    • Greek: τσιγκέλι (tsigkéli)
    • Macedonian: ченгел (čengel)
    • Romanian: cinghel, cinghil
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: чѐнгел
      Latin script: čèngel

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