Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *taŋ (dawn; morning); cognate with Azerbaijani dan, Kazakh таң (tañ), Kyrgyz тан (tan), Tatar таң (tañ), Turkmen daň, Tuvan даң (dañ), Uyghur تاڭ (tang), Uzbek tong and Yakut тыҥ (tıñ).

Noun edit

طاك (dañ, tañ)

  1. dawn, daybreak
    Synonyms: بام (bam), سحر (seher), شفق (şafak), فجر (facr)

Descendants edit

  • Turkish: tan

Further reading edit

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طاك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 793
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Aurora”, 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 107
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طاك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 3074
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tan1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طاك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1226