different between sanjak vs mutasarrif

English

Alternative forms

• zanzack [17th c.]

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (sancâk, “subdivision of a vilayet”, literally “flag”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sand?ak/

Noun

sanjak (plural sanjaks)

1. An administrative region under the Ottoman Empire, a subdivision of a vilayet. [from 16th c.]
2. (obsolete) The governor of a sanjak; a sanjakbeg. [16th-19th c.]
   • 1630, John Smith, True Travels, in Kupperman 1988, p. 45:

     the Duke [...] enforced all the whole Armie to retire to the Campe, with the losse of five or six thousand, with the Bashaw of Buda, and foure or five Zanzacks, with divers other great Commanders, two hundred Prisoners, and nine peeces of Ordnance.

Related terms

• sanjakbeg

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Janaks

Acehnese

Etymology

Derived from Arabic ?????? (saj?, “rhymed prose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa??a?/

Noun

sanjak

1. a kind of verse used in national Acehnese poetry

References

• Thurgood, Graham (1999) From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

English

Alternative forms

• mutesarrif
• mutessarif

Etymology

Turkish mutasarr?f, from Arabic ??????????? (muta?arrif).

Noun

mutasarrif (plural mutasarrifs)

1. An administrative authority of an Ottoman sanjak.

References