پنگان

See also: پنكان‎

Ottoman Turkish
پنگان
پنگان
پنگان

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Persian پنگان‎ (pengân).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pɯnˈɡɑn/

Noun

پنگان • (pıngan)

  1. cup, bowl
  2. cupping jar
  3. palette
  4. water clock, clepsydra, being a bronze cup with a small hole in the bottom used for measuring time by placing it into water, it filled in 8 2⁄3 seconds, 1⁄10000 of a day
  5. a measure of time equalling 8 2⁄3 seconds, 1⁄10000 of a day

References
  • Meyer, Gustav (1892), “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 51
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “پنگان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 903
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866), “پنگان”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 212

Persian

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Noun

پنگان • (pengân)

  1. cup; bowl
  2. water clock, clepsydra

Descendants
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