كمانچه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كمان (keman, “archery bow; violin, fiddle”) +‎ ـچه (-çe, diminutive suffix for Persian words).

Noun

كمانچه • (kemençe)

a little archery bow
a bow used for carding cotton or wool
a long, curved tail to an official signature
a small-sized violin

Derived terms

كامنچه‌جی (kemençeci)

Descendants

→ Armenian: քեմենչե (kʻemenčʻe)

References

Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كمانچه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 4013–4014
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كمانچه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1570

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