teneke
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish تنكه, from Persian تنگه, from Persian تنک (tonok, “تنک”, literally “thin”), from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us (“thin”).
Adjective
[edit]teneke
- made of tinplate
Noun
[edit]teneke (definite accusative tenekeyi, plural tenekelar)
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “teneke”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “teneke”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تنكه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 602