بكك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

A development from بك (beñ, “mole, freckle”).

Alternative forms

• بنك (benek)

Noun

بكك • (beñek)

1. small spot or speckle of a different color from what surrounds it

Derived terms

• بككلتمك (beñekletmek, “to make or let be spotted”)
• بككلمك (beñeklemek, “to spot or speckle”)
• بككلنمك (beñeklenmek, “to become marked with spots”)
• بككلو (beñekli, “spotted, speckled”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: benek
• → Armenian: պենենկ (penenk), պենեք (penekʻ)
• → Romanian: benic

Etymology 2

Noun

بكك • (beyiñ)

1. genitive singular of بك

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “benek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 545
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بكك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 273
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Macula”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 981
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بكك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 903
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “benek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بكك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 377