sancak

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(Anglais)

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

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Prononcé comme (IPA)

/sɑnd͡ʒɑk/

Hérité de turc ottoman

Appartenant à azerbaïdjanais

Appartenant à bachkir

Appartenant à kazakh

Appartenant à turkmène

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”).