قایناق

Ottoman Turkish

قایناق

Alternative forms

• قاینق (kaynak), قیناق (kaynak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kạyïnak, from *kạyïn- (“to boil”), the same root of قاینامق (kaynamak, “to boil”).

Noun

قایناق • (kaynak)

1. spring, source, fount, a spray or body of water springing from the ground

   Synonyms: بوڭار (buñar), چشمه (çeşme), عین (ʿayn), منبع (membaʿ)

2. buttock, each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body

   Synonyms: آرد (ard), ادبار (edbar), دبر (dübür), مقعد (makʿad)

3. welding, the act of joining two metals together by applying heat, pressure and filler

Derived terms

• قایناق یری (kaynak yeri, “gluteal cleft”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kaynak
• → Romanian: coinac

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaynak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2498
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قیناق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 381a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قایناق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 942
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scatebra”, 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 1516
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قاینق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3607
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kaynak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قایناق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1430