sancak

Significado (Inglés)

  1. (poetic) flag, banner
  2. emblem
  3. sanjak (an administrative region under the Ottoman Empire, a subdivision of a vilayet)
  4. starboard

Conceptos

Sinónimos

Frecuencia

C2
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/sɑnd͡ʒɑk/
Etimología (Inglés)

In summary

From Ottoman Turkish سنجاق (sancak, “flag; subdivision of a vilayet”), from Proto-Turkic *sančgak (“lance, streamer attached to a spear”). Cognate with the verb sançmak (“to stab”), also found as Azerbaijani sancmaq (“to stab”), Bashkir сәнсеү (sənsew, “to stab”), Kazakh шаншу (şanşu, “to stab”), Turkmen sançmak, etc. Related to sancı (“pain, ache”).

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