قندیل

See also: قنديل

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic قِنْدِيل (qindīl), ultimately from Latin candēla (“candle”).

Noun

قندیل • (kandil or kındil) (plural قنادیل)

1. lamp, especially an oil lamp hanging from the ceiling

   Synonyms: (oil lamp) چراغ (çirag), سراج (sirac), لامپه (lampa), مصباح (misbah)

2. floating firework star, from a rocket or bomb
3. (botany) hanging flower or glumaceous seed vessel
4. floating soap bubble in the air

Derived terms

• قندیلجی (kandilci, “maker or seller of lamps”)
• قندیللك (kandillik, “arrangement for holding a lamp”)
• قندیللو (kandilli, “illuminated by a lamp”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kandil
• → Albanian: kandil
• → Armenian: խանտիլ (xantil), կանդիլ (kandil)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kandil”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2382
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قندیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎ (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 973
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Lucerna”, 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, Vienna, column 975
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قندیل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 3769–3770
• Meyer, Gustav (1893), “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 46
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kandil”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قندیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1478