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çapak

Turkish edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Ottoman Turkish چاپاق (çapak),[1] ultimately from Proto-Turkic *čalp-. Cognate with Uyghur چاپاق (chapaq, “fump, (eye) gum”), Karakhanid [script needed] (çalpak, “dirt”).[2] Also related to Karakhanid [script needed] (çalpaŋ, “mud”).

Noun edit

çapak (definite accusative çapağı, uncountable)

  1. rheum, fump, gum (eye)
Descendants edit
  • → Armenian: չափախ (čʻapʻax)

Etymology 2 edit

From Ottoman Turkish چاپاق (çapak), disambiguated from the previous sense as چاپاق بالغی (çapak balığı),[1] ultimately from Proto-Turkic *čapak (“Abramis brama”).

Cognate with Turkmen çapak, Chuvash ҫупах (śup̬ah), etc.

Noun edit

çapak

  1. Abramis brama

Etymology 3 edit

There are two theories;

  1. From Turkish çapmak, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *čap-. Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (çapmaq).
  2. From Proto-Turkic *čalp-, cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (çalpak, “dirt”) as per above.

Noun edit

çapak

  1. A thin, small piece of metal that bounces off as it is hammered, forged.

References edit

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چاپاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 698
  2. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çapak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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