ناجاق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

نجق‎ (nacak)

Etymology

From Persian ‎ (nâčax).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nad͡ʒak/

Noun

ناجاق • (nacak)

large axe with a hammer at the back, pole-axe, battle axe, an axe resembling a mace

Descendants

Turkish: nacak
→ Middle Armenian: նաճախ (načax)
- Armenian: նաջախ (naǰax), նաճախ (načax)
→ Belarusian: нажда́к (naždák)
→ Bulgarian: наджа̀к (nadžàk)
→ Gagauz: nacak
→ Macedonian: наџак (nadžak)
→ Russian: нажда́к (naždák)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: на̀џак

Latin: nàdžak
→ Ukrainian: нажда́к (naždák)

References

Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “ناجاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5086
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “nacak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876), “ناجاق”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 902

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