тамұқ

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic	تامۇق
Cyrillic	тамұқ
Latin	tamūq

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *temH- (“dark”).

Cognate with Bashkir тамуҡ (tamuq, “hell”), Tatar тәмуг (tämuğ, “hell”), Uzbek tamugʻ (“hell”), Uyghur تامۇق (tamuq, “hell”), Turkish tamu (“hell”), etc.

Noun

тамұқ • (tamūq)

1. hell, inferno, underworld
2. (figuratively) anguish, torment

Synonyms

• дозақ (dozaq), тозақ (tozaq)
• жаһаннам (jahannam)