پرمق

Ottoman Turkish

پرمق

Alternative forms

• پارمق (parmak), پرماق (parmak)
• փարմագ (parmak) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *barmak (“finger”); cognate with Azerbaijani barmaq, Bashkir бармаҡ (barmaq), Kazakh бармақ (barmaq), Kyrgyz бармак (barmak), Tatar бармак (barmaq), Turkmen barmak, Uyghur بارماق (barmaq), Uzbek barmoq and Yakut тарбах (tarbaq).

Noun

پرمق • (parmak)

1. finger, the jointed extremity of the human hand

   Synonyms: اصبع (usbu), انگشت (engüşt), بنان (benân)

2. toe, each of the five digits at the end of the foot
3. rail, a horizontal bar used for support
4. stripe on colored clothes, etc.
5. spoke, a structure that connects the axle of a wheel to the rim
6. measure of length equivalent to a quarter of an inch

Derived terms

• آلتی پرمق (altı parmak, “striped bonito”)
• اورته پرمق (orta parmak, “middle finger”)
• باش پرمق (baş parmak, “thumb”)
• بش پرمق (beş parmak, “star fish”)
• سرچه پرمق (serçe parmak, “little finger”)
• شهادت پرمغی (şahadet parmağı, “forefinger”)
• پرمق اوزومی (parmak üzümü, “lady's finger grape”)
• پرمق حسابی (parmak hisabı, “calculation on the fingers”)
• پرمق طاغی (parmak dağı, “Mount Judi”)
• پرمق قپو (parmak kapu, “window grating”)
• پرمقجی (parmakcı, “turner of rails”)
• پرمقلتمق (parmaklatmak, “to make have fingers”)
• پرمقلق (parmaklık, “railing, balustrade”)
• پرمقلمق (parmaklamak, “to put rails or spokes to”)
• پرمقلنمق (parmaklanmak, “to be furnished with fingers”)
• یوزوك پرمغی (yüzük parmağı, “ring finger”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: parmak
• Turkish: parmak
• → Romanian: palmac

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “parmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3781
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “پرمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 115a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پارمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 312
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Digitus”, 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 388
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پرمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 785
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “parmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پرماق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 443