باجاق

Ottoman Turkish edit

Alternative forms edit

بجاق (bacak), باجق (bacak)

Etymology edit

According to Nishanyan, the word is directly from Middle Turkic [script needed] (bağacak) or [script needed] (bağancak, "the lower part of the horse's and sheep's leg"); which has evolved from Old Turkic [script needed] (baḳačuk, “bicep muscle, the purlin part of the horse's foot”). Diminutive of Old Turkic [script needed] (baka, “frog”). Compare Latin mūsculus for semantic development.

Noun edit

باجاق • (bacak)

leg, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle
Synonym: آیاق (ayak)
thigh, the part of the leg between the hip and the knee
Synonyms: اویلق (uyluk), بوت (but)
shank, the part of the leg between the knee and the ankle
Synonym: اینجك (incik)
knave, jack in playing cards
Synonyms: اوغلان (oğlan), فانتی (fanti)

Coordinate terms edit

Playing cards in Ottoman Turkish · اسقامبیل (iskambil) (layout · text)

بك (bey), برلی (birli)	ایكیلی (ikili)	اوچلی (üçlü)	درتلی (dörtlü)	بشلی (beşli)	آلتیلی (altılı)	یدیلی (yedili)

سكزلی (sekizli)	طقوزلی (dokuzlu)	اونلی (onlu)	باجاق (bacak), اوغلان (oğlan), فانتی (fanti)	قیز (kız)	پاپاز (papaz)

Derived terms edit

آرد باجاق (ard bacak, “hind leg”)
باجاق قلمی (bacak kalemi, “shinbone”)
باجاقسز (bacaksız, “short-legged”)
باجاقلو (bacaklı, “long-legged”)

Descendants edit

Turkish: bacak
→ Armenian: պաճախ (pačax), բաջաղ (baǰaġ)
→ Bulgarian: баджа́к (badžák)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: ба̏та̄к, ба̀джак

Latin script: bȁtāk, bàdžak