Kazakh edit

Alternative scripts
Arabic تامۇق
Cyrillic тамұқ
Latin tamūq

Etymology edit

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 edit

тамұқ (tamūq)

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

Synonyms edit