طوتقال

Ottoman Turkish

طوتقال

Etymology

Ultimately from a development of Proto-Turkic *tut- (“to grasp”), the same root of طوتمق (tutmak, “to hold, grasp, catch”).

Noun

طوتقال • (tutkal)

1. glue, any sticky substance used as an adhesive

   Synonym: لزاق (lizak)

Derived terms

• بالق طوتقالی (balık tutkalı, “isinglass”)
• خاص طوتقال (has tutkal, “jelly”)
• طوتقاللامق (tutkallamak, “to glue”)
• طوتقاللاندرمق (tutkallandırmak, “to make or let become glue”)
• طوتقاللانمق (tutkallanmak, “to be glued”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: tutkal
• → Albanian: tutkall
• → Armenian: թութխալ (tʻutʻxal)
• → Macedonian: туткал (tutkal)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tutkal”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4922
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طوتقال”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 316a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طوتقال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 812
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gluten”, 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 659
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طوتقال”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3137
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tutkal”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طوتقال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1251