پنچه

Ottoman Turkish

پنچه

Alternative forms

• پنجه (pence) (obsolete)

Etymology

From older پنجه (pence), from Persian پنجه (panje, “paw”), a development of پنج (panj, “five”). It replaced the native word قیناق (kıynak, “claw, talon, paw”).

Noun

پنچه • (pençe) (definite accusative پنچه‌یی (pençeyi), plural پنچه‌لر (pençeler))

1. paw, the soft foot of a mammal or other animal that has claws or nails, comparable to a human hand or foot

   Synonym: كف (kef)

2. claw, talon, unguis, a sharp, hooked nail on each digit of the foot of a bird of prey or other predatory animal

   Synonyms: چنك (çenk), طرمیق (tırmık), طرناق (tırnak), قیناق (kıynak)

3. signature, a depiction of someone's name, used as identification or to signify approval of accompanying material

   Synonym: امضا (imza)

Derived terms

• آرسلان پنچه‌سی (arslan pençesi, “lady's mantle”)
• آیی پنچه‌سی (ayı pençesi, “bear's breech”)
• ال پنچه طورمق (el pençe durmak, “to stand in an attitude of respect”)
• دكز پنچه‌سی (deñiz pençesi, “coralline”)
• شیر پنچه (şir pençe, “carbuncle”)
• قورت پنچه‌سی (kurt pençesi, “bistort”)
• كوپك پنچه‌سی (köpek pençesi, “Rutland beauty”)
• پنچه آتمق (pençe atmak, “to seize”)
• پنچه آل عبا (pençe-i âl-i ʼaba, “the Ahl al-Bayt”)
• پنچه صالمق (pençe salmak, “to seize”)
• پنچه‌لتمك (pençeletmek, “to make or let be signed”)
• پنچه‌لشمك (pençeleşmek, “to lock fingers with another”)
• پنچه‌لمك (pençelemek, “to paw; to seize”)
• پنچه‌لنمك (pençelenmek, “to be officially signed”)
• پنچه‌لو (pençeli, “possesed of paws or talons”)
• پنچه‌یه كچیرمك (pençeye geçirmek, “to usurp, take over”)

Descendants

• Turkish: pençe
• → Armenian: փէնչէ (pʻēnčʻē)
• → Crimean Tatar: panca
• → Romanian: pingea
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: па̑нџа

  Latin script: pȃndža

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “پنچه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 411
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pençe1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3818
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “پنچه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 127a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پنجه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 324
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Unguis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1782
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پنچه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 895
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pençe”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پنچه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 454