دواق

Ottoman Turkish

دواق

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tuġak (“cover, veil”); cognate with Azerbaijani duvaq, Salar dovaq and Turkmen tuwak.

Noun

دواق • (duvak)

1. bride's veil, an ornate veil worn by brides on wedding day

Descendants

• Turkish: duvak
• → Albanian: duvak
• → Macedonian: дувак (duvak)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “duvak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1313
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دواق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 231a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دواق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 583
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Velum”, 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 1725
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دواق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2153
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “duvak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دواق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 917