جنك
العربية
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جنك¹
- /d͡ʒank/
- /d͡ʒunk/
Where it comes from
From Persian چنگ (čang, “harp”), from Middle Persian [script needed] (čang, “harp”), from which earlier already borrowed صَنْج (ṣanj, “harp; cymbal”).
noun جَنْك · جُنْك · جُنُوك · الْجَنْك
- harp, or a kind thereof
جنك²
- /d͡ʒunk/
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Malay jong.
noun جُنْك · junk · جُنُوك · الْجُنْك
- jong, junk (flat Southeast Asian ship with two to three masts and square bows)
In English
- junk Chinese sailing vessel
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