قایماق

Ottoman Turkish

قایماق

Alternative forms

• قیمق (kaymak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kańak (“cream, kaymak”); cognate with Azerbaijani qaymaq, Bashkir ҡаймаҡ (qaymaq), Chuvash хӑйма (hăjma), Karakhanid قَيَقْ (“qayaq”), Kazakh қаймақ (qaimaq), Kyrgyz каймак (kaymak), Turkmen gaýmak and Uzbek qaymoq.

Noun

قایماق • (kaymak) (definite accusative قایماغی (kaymağı), plural قایماقلر (kaymaklar))

1. kaymak, a creamy dairy product similar to clotted cream, made in Turkic countries

   Synonym: زبده (zübde)

2. skimming, a film or pellicle of cream formed on milk or other products when boiled

   Synonym: طهافه (tuhafe)

Derived terms

• قایماق باغلامق (kaymak bağlamak, “to become covered over with a pellicle”)
• قایماق طاشی (kaymak taşı, “alabaster”)
• قایماق گبی (kaymak gibi, “white, smooth, pure”)
• قایماق یاغی (kaymak yağı, “fresh butter”)
• قایماقجی (kaymakcı, “maker or seller of kaymak”)
• قایماقلانمق (kaymaklanmak, “to become clotted cream”)
• قایماقلو (kaymaklı, “mixed or flavored with kaymak”)
• كیرج قایماغی (kirec kaymağı, “cream of lime”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: kaymak
• Turkish: kaymak
• → Armenian: խայմախ (xaymax), ղայմաղ (ġaymaġ), կա̈յմա̈ղ (käymäġ)
• → Bulgarian: Каймак (Kajmak)
• → English: kaymak
• → French: Kajmak
• → Greek: καϊμάκι (kaïmáki)
• → Macedonian: кајмак (kajmak)
• → Persian: قیماق (qeymâq)
• → Polish: kajmak
• → Romanian: caimac
• → Russian: каймак (kajmak)
• → Serbo-Croatian: kajmak, кајмак
• → Slovene: kajmak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaymak3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2498
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قیمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 380b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قایماق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 941
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cremor lactis”, 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 299
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قیمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3828
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kaymak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قایماق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1429