طوقماق
Ottoman Turkish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Turkic *tokïmak (“club, mallet”),[1] perhaps a derivation from *tokï- (“to hit, strike”).
Noun
editطوقماق • (tokmak) (definite accusative طوقماغی (tokmağı), plural طوقماقلر (tokmaklar))
- large wooden rod for pestle, used in conjunction with a large mortar of stone called دیبك (dibek)
- mallet, beetle, a type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head made of wood, used for driving a tool
- knocker, doorknocker, a device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door
- (firearms) hammer, a moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun
Derived terms
edit- دینك طوقماغی (dinek tokmağı, “threshing floor”)
- كولباصدی طوقماغی (külbasdı tokmağı, “meat mallet, tenderizer”)
- چاماشیر طوقماغی (çamaşır tokmağı, “fuller's beetle”)
Descendants
edit- Turkish: tokmak
- → Albanian: tokmak
- → Arabic:
- → Armenian: թոխմախ (tʻoxmax)
- → Bulgarian: токма́к (tokmák)
- → Ladino: tokmak
- → Macedonian: токмак (tokmak)
- → Romanian: tocmac
- → Serbo-Croatian:
References
edit- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tokı:mak”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 470
Further reading
edit- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “طوقمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 320
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طوقمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 318a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طوقماق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 819
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Malleus ligneus”, 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 994
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طوقمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3148
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tokmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طوقماق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1258