طاك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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

طاك • (dañ, tañ)

1. dawn, daybreak

   Synonyms: بام (bam), سحر (seher), شفق (şafak), فجر (facr)

Descendants

• Turkish: tan

Further reading

• 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