Pecheneg

English

The Byzantine Empire in 1045, showing the location of the Pecheneg Khanates (centre top)

Alternative forms

• Pacheneg, Patzinak, Petcheneg, Petchenek

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian печене́г (pečenég).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛt͡ʃənɛɡ/

Noun

Pecheneg (plural Pechenegs)

1. (historical) A member of a specific semi-nomadic Turkic people from central Asia, some of whom migrated into eastern Europe.
   • 1987, Charles J. Halperin, Russia and the Golden Horde: The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History, Indiana University Press, page 13:

     The Pechenegs had already ceased to be a major threat by the time Kievan Rus’ converted to Christianity in 988, and most references to them in the chronicle are in the period before this, earlier in the tenth century.

   • 1993, Harry Thirlwall Norris, Islam in the Balkans: Religion and Society Between Europe and the Arab World, University of South Carolina Press, page 26:

     One of the earliest Arab geographers who referred to the Pechenegs in south-eastern Europe was al-Iṣṭakhrī (circa 950).

   • 2006, Florin Curta, Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250, Cambridge University Press, page 301:

     The siege of Dristra failed, as the emperor found himself surrounded by the Pechenegs. […] Fearing a Cuman–Pecheneg alliance, Alexios immediately sued for peace and the Pechenegs agreed to a truce, which they immediately broke in order to take advantage of Alexios' notorious lack of troops and invade Thrace.

Translations

member of a Turkic people

• Armenian: պեչենեգ (pečʻeneg)
• Azerbaijani: peçeneq
• Belarusian: печане́г m (pječanjéh)
• Czech: Pečeněh m
• Georgian: პაჭანიკი (ṗač̣aniḳi)
• Greek:

  Ancient: Πατζινάκες (Patzinákes)

• Hungarian: besenyő (hu)
• Japanese: ペチェネグ (pechenegu)
• Khakas: печенек (peçenek)
• Korean: 페체네그 (pechenegeu), 페체네그인 (pechenegeu'in)
• Old East Slavic: печенѣгъ m (pečeněgŭ)
• Polish: Pieczynieg m
• Romanian: peceneg (ro) m
• Russian: печене́г (ru) m (pečenég)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: печенег m

  Roman: pečeneg m

• Turkish: Peçenek (tr)
• Ukrainian: печені́г m (pečeníh)

Proper noun

Pecheneg

1. (historical) The now extinct Turkic language spoken by the Pechenegs.
   • 1991, Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi, Volume 7, Peter de Ridder Press, page 286:

     […] these loanwords are later borrowings from the Pecheneg and Comanian, respectively.

Translations

language

Adjective

Pecheneg (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the Pecheneg people or their language.

Translations

of or relating to the Pecheneg people or their language

• Khakas: печенек (peçenek)
• Russian: печене́жский (ru) (pečenéžskij)

See also

• Cuman
• Kipchak

Further reading

• Pecheneg language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Khazars on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Turkic peoples on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Turkic migration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Timeline of the Turkic peoples (500–1300) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia