طرناق

Ottoman Turkish

طرناق

Alternative forms

• درناق (dırnak), طرنق (tırnak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tïrŋak (“finger-nail, claw”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐱃𐰃𐰺𐰭𐰴 (tïrŋaq), Azerbaijani dırnaq, Bashkir тырнаҡ (tırnaq), Kazakh тырнақ (tyrnaq), Kyrgyz тырмак (tırmak), Turkmen dyrnak, Uyghur تىرناق (tirnaq), Uzbek tirnoq and Yakut тыҥырах (tıñıraq).

Noun

طرناق • (tırnak)

1. fingernail, toenail, the thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes

   Synonyms: ظفر (zufr), ناخن (nahun)

2. claw, a curved, pointed nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal or bird

   Synonyms: پنچه (pençe), چنك (çenk), طرمیق (tırmık)

3. hoof, the tip of a toe of an ungulate, such as a horse, ox or deer

   Synonym: طویناق (toynak)

4. guillemet, either of the punctuation marks « or », used to indicate passages of speech

Derived terms

• طرناق اوتی (tırnak otu, “mouse-ear hawkweed”)
• طرناق سوكمك (tırnak sökmek, “to draw a nail with pincers”)
• طرناق كسمك (tırnak kesmek, “to cut the nails”)
• طرناق یری (tırnak yeri, “weak point”)
• طرناقلامق (tırnaklamak, “to wound with the nails or claws”)
• طرناقلو (tırnaklı, “provided with nails, claws or hoofs”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: tırnak
• → Armenian: թըռնախ (tʻəṙnax)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tırnak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4815
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طرناق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 804
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Unguis”, 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 1782
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طرنق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3102
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tırnak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طرناق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1238