قباق
Ottoman Turkish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Turkic *k(i)apak (“forehead, front”).
Influenced by قاپمق (kapmak) by the idea of containing.
Noun
editقباق • (kabak)
- cucurbit
- bald head
- the front, the fronter part of or the space in front of a thing
- Synonym: قبل
- container, calabash, flask etc. in various technical applications
Derived terms
edit- قباقجی (kabakcı)
Adjective
editقباق • (kabak)
Descendants
edit- Turkish: kabak
- → Armenian: խապախ (xapax)
- → Bulgarian: каба́к (kabák)
- → Georgian: ყაბაყი (q̇abaq̇i)
- → Macedonian: кабак (kabak)
References
edit- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قباق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1431