دودوك

Ottoman Turkish

دودوك

Alternative forms

• دودك (düdük)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tǖtük (“pipe; whistle”); cognate with Azerbaijani düdük, Turkmen tüýdük and Uyghur دۈدۈك (düdük).

Noun

دودوك • (düdük)

1. whistle, a device designed to be blown to make a whistling sound

   Synonym: صفاره (saffare)

2. pipe, a wind instrument consisting of a tube sounded by blowing into the tube

Derived terms

• دودوك كمیكی (düdük kemiği, “tibia, shinbone”)
• دودوكجی (düdükcü, “piper; fifer”)
• دودوكی چالمق (düdüğü çalmak, “to play the pipe”)
• عسكر دودوكی (ʿasker düdüğü, “military fife”)
• گمیجی دودوكی (gemici düdüğü, “boatswain's pipe”)
• یان دودوك (yan düdük, “fife or flute”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: düdük
• → Albanian: duduk
• → Armenian: դուդուկ (duduk)
  • → English: duduk
• → Greek: ντουντούκα (ntountoúka)
• → Macedonian: дудук (duduk)
• → Romanian: diudiuc

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “düdük”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1318
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دودك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 231b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دودوك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 584
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fistula”, 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 586
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دودك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2158
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “düdük”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دودوك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 919