# سنجاق
## Azerbaijani
### Alternative forms

* صنجاق

### Noun

سنجاق (definite accusative سنجاقی, plural سنجاقلر)
* Arabic spelling of sancaq

## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* սանճագ (sancak) — Armeno-Turkish

### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sančgak (“lance, streamer attached to a spear”) and thus sharing the same root of صانجیمق (sancımak, “to stab, stick a sharp pointed thing into”) and صنجی (sancı, “pain in the gut”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɑnd͡ʒɑk/

### Noun

سنجاق • (sancak)
* flag, banner, standard, ensign, especially the Ottoman standard
    Synonyms: بیراق (bayrak), رایت (rayet), علم (ʿalem), لوا (liva)
* sanjak, the second level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire
    Synonym: لوا (liva)
* (nautical) starboard, the righthand side of a ship when facing the front

#### Derived terms

* سنجاق اچمق (sancak açmak, “to unfurl a flag”)
* سنجاق بكی (sancak beği, “governor of a sanjak”)
* سنجاق شریف (sancak-ı şerif, “the sacred banner of Mohammed”)
* سنجاق چكمك (sancak çekmek, “to hoist up a flag”)
* سنجاقدار (sancakdar, “flag-bearer”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: sancak
* → Albanian: sanxhak
* → Arabic: سَنْجَق (sanjaq)
* → Armenian: սանջակ (sanǰak), սանճախ (sančax)
* → Belarusian: санджа́к (sandžák)
* → Bulgarian: санджа́к (sandžák)
* → Czech: sandžak
* → English: sanjak, sanjakate
* → French: sandjak, sangiac
* → German: Sandschak
* → Hungarian: szandzsák
* → Italian: sangiacco
* → Kazakh: санжақ (sanjaq)
* → Macedonian: санџак (sandžak)
* → Polish: sandżak
* → Portuguese: sanjaco
* → Romanian: sangeac
* → Russian: санджа́к (sandžák)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: са̀нџак
    Latin script: sàndžak
* → Slovak: sandžak
* → Spanish: sanjacado
* → Ukrainian: санджа́к (sandžák)
* → Uyghur: سانجاق (sanjaq)

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sancak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4055
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سنجاق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 276b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سنجاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 694
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vexillum”, 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 1750
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سنجاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2683
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sancak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سنجاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1082

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Turkic.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [san.ˈd͡ʒɑːq]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sän.d͡ʒɑ́ːq]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sän.d͡ʒɑ́ːq]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [sän.d͡ʒɑ́ːq]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [sän.d͡ʒɔ́ːq]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [sæn.d͡ʒɒ́ːɢ̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [sän.d͡ʒɔ́q]

### Noun

| Dari | سنجاق |
| Iranian Persian | سنجاق |
| Tajik | санҷоқ |
سنجاق • (sanjâq)
* pin

#### Derived terms

* سنجاق سر (sanjâq-sar)
* سنجاق سینه (sanjâq-sine)
* سنجاق قفلی (sanjâq-qofli)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سنجاق (sanjāq).

### Noun

سنجاق • (sanjāq) m (Hindi spelling संजाक़)
* pin