بوداق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بوطاق (butak)
• պուտագ (budak) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *būta-k (“branch”), analyzable as from Proto-Turkic *būta- (“branch; to cut branches, prune”) +‎ ـاق (-ak, “noun and adjective diminutive suffix”). See also بودامق (budamak, “to lop, prune”).

Noun

بوداق • (budak)

1. (botany) shoot in a tree that will become a branch
2. branch, the woody part of a tree arising from the trunk

   Synonyms: دال (dal), شاخ (şah), غصن (ğasn)

3. broken stump of a branch
4. gnarl out of which many shoots spring, knot in wood

   Synonym: بوتراق (boturak)

Derived terms

• بوداقسز (budaksız, “branchless”)
• بوداقلانمق (budaklanmak, “to branch, tillow”)
• بوداقلو (budaklı, budaklu, “furnished with shoots or gnarls”)
• دیش بوداق (diş budak, “ash tree”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: budak
• → Armenian: պուտախ (putax)
• → Serbo-Croatian: budak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “budak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 683
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بوداق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 129a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوداق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 281
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ramus”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1433
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوداق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 911
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “budak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوداق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 392