tuzak
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish طوزاق, from Common Turkic *tuzaq (“snare, trap”).
Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (tuzaq, “snare, trap”); Azerbaijani duzaq, Kazakh тұзақ (tūzaq), Kyrgyz тузак (tuzak), Southern Altai тузак (tuzak), Uzbek tuzoq, Bashkir тоҙаҡ (toźaq), Tuvan дузак (duzak), Yakut туһах (tuhaq, “snare, trap”), etc.
Noun edit
tuzak (definite accusative tuzağı, plural tuzaklar)
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “tuzak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طوزاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1255