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TURKISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

sancak.

flag, banner

6 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

noun/sɑnd͡ʒɑk/

  1. flag, banner

    poetic
    al sancak
    Kırmızı Sancak

  2. emblem

  3. sanjak (an administrative region under the Ottoman Empire, a subdivision of a vilayet)

  4. starboard

Where this word comes from

From Ottoman Turkish سنجاق (sancak, “flag; subdivision of a vilayet”), from Proto-Turkic *sančgak (“lance, streamer attached to a spear”). Cognate with the verb sançmak (“to stab”), also found as Azerbaijani sancmaq (“to stab”), Bashkir сәнсеү (sänsew, “to stab”), Kazakh шаншу (šanšuw, “to stab”), Turkmen sançmak, etc. Related to sancı (“pain, ache”).

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