sancak
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See also: Sancak
English
Noun
sancak (plural sancaks)
- Alternative form of sanjak
Turkish
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sancak (definite accusative sancağı, plural sancaklar)
- (poetic) flag, banner
- al sancak ― the Turkish flag (poetic)
- Kırmızı Sancak ― Red Ensign
- emblem
- sanjak (an administrative region under the Ottoman Empire, a subdivision of a vilayet)
- starboard
Declension
Categories:
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- Turkish terms inherited from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms inherited from Proto-Turkic
- Turkish terms derived from Proto-Turkic
- Turkish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Turkish lemmas
- Turkish nouns
- Turkish poetic terms
- Turkish terms with usage examples
- tr:Administrative divisions
- tr:Ship parts
- Turkish nouns with irregular stem