# جندره
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

From Persian جندره (jandara).

### Noun

جندره • (cendere)
* cylinder, columnal shape
* press, mangle, calender (for clothes, in the kitchen, wine, hydraulic presses etc.)
    Synonyms: باصقی (baskı), منكنه (mengene)
* (figurative) a narrow passage
* (figurative) oppression

#### Derived terms

* جندره‌جی (cendereci, “pressman”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: cendere
* → Egyptian Arabic: جَنْدَرَة (gandara, “mangle, calender and any rotary press”)
* → Armenian: ճէնտէրէ (čēntērē)

### Further reading

* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جندره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 447b
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جندره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1662
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “torcularius, Preßmeister”, 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 1679
* 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 47
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cendere”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جندره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 682

## Persian
### Etymology

An Indo-Aryan borrowing, ultimately from Sanskrit यन्त्र (yantra).

### Noun

جندره • (jandara)
* the bar of a door
* two pieces of wood used for smoothing linens; a calender, mangle
* (figurative) detersion, smoothening, extenuation

### Adjective

جندره • (jandara)
* wrinkled, unsmoothened
* clownish, boorish, unpolished

#### Related terms

* جندر (jandar, “clothes”)

#### Descendants

* → Ottoman Turkish: جندره (cendere)
** Turkish: cendere
** → Egyptian Arabic: جَنْدَرَة (gandara, “mangle, calender and any rotary press”)
** → Armenian: ճէնտէրէ (čēntērē)

### References

* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “جندره”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
* Vullers, Johann August (1855) “جندره”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎ (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 532b
* Edelʹman, D. I. (2011) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 75
* Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 427, page 95
* Hübschmann, Heinrich (1895) Persische Studien [Persian Studies] (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 427, page 50
* Morgenstierne, Georg (1923) “Iranian Notes”, in Acta Orientalia, volume 1, Leiden: E.J. Brill, pages 264–265
* Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary]‎ (in German), volume III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 7