sancak

sancak (plural sancaks)

1. Alternative form of sanjak

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 (sənsew, “to stab”), Kazakh шаншу (şanşu, “to stab”), Turkmen sançmak, etc. Related to sancı (“pain, ache”).

• IPA^(key): /sɑnd͡ʒɑk/

sancak (definite accusative sancağı, plural sancaklar)

1. (poetic) flag, banner

   al sancak ― the Turkish flag (poetic)

   Kırmızı Sancak ― Red Ensign

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