نهنگ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian نهنگ (nahang, “crocodile”).

Noun

نهنگ • (neheng)

1. crocodile, alligator any of various large reptiles in the order Crocodilia

   Synonym: تمساح (timsah)

Descendants

• Turkish: neheng

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “neheng”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3516
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نهنگ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1293
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Crocodillus”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 303
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “نهنگ”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 5292
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نهنگ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2117

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐫗𐫍𐫗𐫃 (nhng /⁠nihang⁠/, “crocodile”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [na.ˈhanɡ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nä.ɦǽŋɡ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nä.ɦǽŋɡ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [nɑːǽŋɡ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [nɔːǽŋɡ̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [næ.ɦǽɲɡʲ̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [nä.ɦǽŋɡ]

Readings
Classical reading?	nahang
Dari reading?	nahang
Iranian reading?	nahang
Tajik reading?	nahang

Noun

نهنگ • (nahang) (plural نهنگ‌ها (nahang-hâ) or نهنگان (nahangân))

1. (archaic) crocodile or hippopotamus
2. whale

   Synonym: وال (vâl, “whale”)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: nəhəng (“giant”)
• → Ottoman Turkish: نهنگ (neheng)
  • Turkish: neheng

References

• Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004) “nhng”, in A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols, page 242

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “نهنگ”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press