قارموق

Ottoman Turkish

قارموق

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *karmak (“fishing rod; hook”); cognate with Azerbaijani qarmaq, Bashkir ҡармаҡ (qarmaq), Khakas хармах (xarmax), Kazakh қармақ (qarmaq), Kyrgyz кармак (karmak), Tatar qarmaq, Uyghur قارماق (qarmaq) and Uzbek qarmoq.

Noun

قارموق • (karmuk)

1. grappling hook, a type of hook designed to be thrown at a target

Descendants

• Turkish: karmuk

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karmuk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2443
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قارموق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 925
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قارموق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1414