طاشاق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• طاشق (taşak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tašak (“testicle”), probably a dimunitive of *tiāĺ (“stone”); equivalent to طاش (taş, “stone”) +‎ ـاق (-ak, noun and adjective diminutive suffix). Cognate with Azerbaijani daşşaq, Crimean Tatar taşaq, Karachay-Balkar ташакъ (taşaq), Kazakh тасақ (tasaq), Kipchak طشاق and Kyrgyz ташак (taşak).

Noun

طاشاق • (taşak) (definite accusative طاشاغی (taşağı), plural طاشاقلر (taşaklar))

1. testicle, the male sex and endocrine gland, found in some types of animals

   Synonyms: بیضه (beyza), خایه (haya), خصیه (husye)

Derived terms

• تك طاشاق (tek taşak, “monorchis”)
• تلكی طاشاغی (tilki taşağı, “green-winged orchid”)
• دبه طاشاق (debe taşak, “inguinal hernia”)
• طاشاقسز (taşaksız, “without testicles”)
• طاشاقلی (taşaklı, “provided with testicles”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: taşak
• → Armenian: թաշախ (tʻašax)
• → Macedonian: ташак (tašak)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “taşak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4628
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طاشاق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 309a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طاشاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 791
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Testiculus”, 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 1668
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طاشاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3068
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “taşak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طاشاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1223