kauk
Inupiaq edit
Noun edit
kauk (dual kauk, plural kaugich)
- walrus skin [for food]
- Kauk kayumiktuq niġiruni.
- Walrus skin is delicious to eat.
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قاوق (kavuk); compare Turkish kavuk.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kàuk m (Cyrillic spelling ка̀ук)
- (regional) caouk: a high stiff Turkish hat around which a turban is typically wound or folded
- a. 1823, “Banović Strainja”, in Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, editor, Narodne srpske pjesme[1], volume 2, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, published 1823, page 124:
- Оћу њима руо пром’јенити,
А у Турско руо облачити:
Око главе бијеле кауке,
А на плећи зелене доламе,
А на ноге меневиш чакшире,
О појасу сабље пламените;- Oću njima ruo prom’jeniti,
A u Tursko ruo oblačiti:
Oko glave bijele kauke,
A na pleći zelene dolame,
A na noge meneviš čakšire,
O pojasu sablje plamenite; - I want to change their apparel,
and in Turkish apparel dress them:
around their heads white caouks,
and on their shoulders green dolmans,
and on their legs violet baggy breeches,
in their belts fiery sabers;
- Oću njima ruo prom’jeniti,
Declension edit
Declension of kauk
References edit
- “kauk” in Hrvatski jezični portal
- Pero Budmani, editor (1892-1897), “kàuk”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika[2] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 4, Zagreb: JAZU, page 902