اذق

Karakhanid

Alternative forms

• اَزَقْ (azaq) (in the language of the Bulghar, Kipchak, Yemek and Suwar)
• اَيَقْ (ayaq) (in the language of the Oghuz, Kipchak, Yaghma, Yabaqu and Tatars)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *adak. Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰑𐰴 (adaq), Chuvash ура (ura), Turkish ayak (“leg, foot”), Uzbek oyoq, Bashkir аҙаҡ (aźaq), аяҡ (ayaq) and Yakut атак (atak).

Noun

اَذَقْ (aδaq)

1. (anatomy) leg, foot

   اَغٖيرْ اَذاقْ اَمْرُلْدٖى ― Ağï̄r aδāq amruldï̄. ― The heavy foot has come to rest.

Derived terms

• اَذَقْلاماقْ (aδaqlāmāq, “to strike on the foot”)
• اَذَقْلَنْماقْ (aδaqlanmāq, “to have legs”)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “aḏak”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 45

Further reading

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 65