باقاناق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bakań (“hoof, joints in animals' feet”).

Noun

باقاناق • (baqanaq)

1. claw of a divided hoof
2. cushion under the toe of a camel's foot

Descendants

• (dialectal) Turkish: bakanak

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باقاناق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 331