قویروق

Ottoman Turkish

قویروق

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kudruk (“tail”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰆𐰑𐰺𐰆𐰸 (qudruq), Azerbaijani quyruq, Bashkir ҡойроҡ (qoyroq), Chuvash хӳре (hüre), Kazakh құйрық (qūiryq), Kyrgyz куйрук (kuyruk), Turkmen guýruk, Uyghur قۇيرۇق (quyruq) and Uzbek quyruq.

Noun

قویروق • (kuyruk) (definite accusative قویروغی (kuyruğu), plural قویروقلر (kuyruklar))

1. tail, the caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus

   Synonyms: دم (dum), دمبال (dumbal), ذنب (zeneb)

2. tail, any object or part of it resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails

   Synonym: ذنب (zeneb)

3. queue, a line of people, vehicles or other objects, usually one to be dealt with in sequence

Derived terms

• آت قویروغی (at kuyruğu, “horsetail”)
• آرسلان قویروغی (arslan kuyruğu, “motherwort”)
• تلكی قویروغی (tilki kuyruğu, “foxtail”)
• صیغیر قویروغی (sığır kuyruğu, “great mullein”)
• قاطر قویروغی (katır kuyruğu, “horseshoe vetch”)
• قامچی قویروق (kamçı kuyruk, “nag, useless horse”)
• قویروق آجیسی (kuyruk acısı, “vexation”)
• قویروق اوستی (kuyruk üstü, “upper surface of the tail”)
• قویروق اولمق (kuyruk olmak, “to form a line or queue”)
• قویروق صالان (kuyruk salan, “wagtail”)
• قویروق صاللامق (kuyruk sallamak, “to wag the tail”)
• قویروق صوقومی (kuyruk sokumu, “sacrum, holy bone”)
• قویروق قیصمق (kuyruk kısmak, “to threaten”)
• قویروق كمیكی (kuyruk kemiği, “tailbone”)
• قویروق یاغی (kuyruk yağı, “fat of a sheep's tail”)
• قویروقسز (kuyruksuz, “tailless”)
• قویروقلو (kuyruklu, “tailed”)
• قیل قویروق (kıl kuyruk, “pheasant”)
• گوز قویروغی (göz kuyruğu, “angle of the eye”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kuyruk
• → Armenian: խույրուխ (xuyrux)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kuyruk1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2874
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قویروق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 378b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قویروق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 993
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cauda”, 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 162
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قویروق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3811
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kuyruk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قویروق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1500