قرنجه

Ottoman Turkish

قرنجه

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *k(i)arïnčga (“a kind of insect”); cognate with Azerbaijani qarınca, Crimean Tatar qarınca and Turkmen garynja.

Noun

قرنجه • (karınca)

1. ant, any of various insects in the family Formicidae

   Synonyms: مور (mur), نمل (nemel)

2. formication, an abnormal skin sensation in a numbed limb
3. honeycomb holes of a metal or other material

Derived terms

• قرنجه باغی (karınca bağı, “chloroform”)
• قرنجه‌لاشمق (karıncalaşmak, “to formicate”)
• قرنجه‌لانمق (karıncalanmak, “to become infested with ants”)
• قرنجه‌لق (karıncalık, “anthill”)
• قرنجه‌لو (karıncalı, “infested with ants”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: karınca
• → Armenian: խառընճա (xaṙənča)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karınca”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2436
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Formica”, 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^[1], Vienna, column 602
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قرنجه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 3678
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “karınca1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قرنجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1450