Where does “سنجق” come from?

سنجق (Arabic) comes from Ottoman Turkish سنجاق, from Proto-Turkic *sančgak.

سنجق (Arabic): a type of local administrative division, sanjak, district

Definitions

  1. a type of local administrative division, sanjak, district

Ancestry of “سنجق”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishسنجاقflag, banner; a type of local administrative...
2Proto-Turkic*sančgak—
Every word from Proto-Turkic *sančgak →Every word from Ottoman Turkish سنجاق →