طرمیق

Ottoman Turkish

طرمیق

Alternative forms

• طرمك (tırmık)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *dïrŋïk (“rake”); cognate with Azerbaijani dırmıq, Bashkir тырма (tırma), Kazakh тырма (tyrma), Kyrgyz тырмоо (tırmoo), Southern Altai тырмууш (tïrmuuš), Turkmen dyrmyk, Uyghur تىرنا (tirna) and Uzbek tirma.

Noun

طرمیق • (tırmık)

1. claw, a curved, pointed nail on each digit of the foot of an animal, especially a cat

   Synonyms: پنچه (pençe), چنك (çenk), طرناق (tirnak)

2. rake, a garden tool with a row of pointed teeth, used for collecting debris, grass, etc.

   Synonym: طراق (tarak)

3. grubber, grub hook, any small hook used for seizing or hauling

Derived terms

• طرمیقلامق (tırmıklamak, “to rake”)

Descendants

• Turkish: tırmık
• → Armenian: թռնախ (tʻṙnax), տռնախ (tṙnax), դռնաղ (dṙnaġ)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tırmık2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4814
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طرمك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 312b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طرمیق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 804
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Rastelli”, 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 1436
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طرمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3102
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tırmık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طرمیق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1238