طراق

Ottoman Turkish

طراق

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tarġak (“comb”) and thus related to طرامق (taramak, “to comb”); cognate with Azerbaijani daraq, Bashkir тараҡ (taraq), Kazakh тарақ (taraq), Kyrgyz тарак (tarak), Turkmen darak, Uyghur تاغاق (taghaq) and Uzbek taroq.

Noun

طراق • (tarak)

1. comb, a toothed implement for grooming the hair or for keeping it in place

   Synonyms: شانه (şane), مشط (muşt)

2. rake, a garden tool with a row of pointed teeth, used for collecting debris, grass, etc.

   Synonym: طرمیق (tırmık)

3. hackle, an instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp
4. comb, crest, a fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds

   Synonyms: ایبك (ibik), عرف (ʿurf)

5. cockle, any of various edible bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae
6. scallop, any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the family Pectinidae

Derived terms

• آیاق طراغی (ayak tarağı, “metatarsus”)
• ال طراغی (el tarağı, “metacarpus”)
• باغچه طراغی (bağçe tarağı, “gardener's rake”)
• بوستان طراغی (bustan tarağı, “iron-toothed rake”)
• دكز طراغی (deñiz tarağı, “dredging machine”)
• صقال طراغی (sakal tarağı, “coarse comb for the beard”)
• طراق دوبهسی (tarak dubası, “dredger”)
• طراق دیشی (tarak dişi, “tooth of a comb”)
• طراقجی (tarakcı, “maker or seller of combs”)
• طراقلامق (taraklamak, “to comb, hackle, rake, harrow”)
• طراقلانمق (taraklanmak, “to be combed, hackled, raked”)
• طراقلق (taraklık, “quality or functions of a comb”)
• طراقلو (taraklı, “furnished with a comb; crested”)
• طرلا طراغی (tarla tarağı, “harrow”)
• قوش طراغی (kuş tarağı, “comb, crest of a bird”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: tarak
• → Armenian: տարախ (tarax), տարաք (tarakʻ)
• → Macedonian: та́рак (tárak)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tarak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4604
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طراق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 312a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طراق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 801
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pecten”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1257
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طراق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3094
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tarak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طراق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1235