كوپوك

Ottoman Turkish

كوپوك

Alternative forms

• كوپك (köpük)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *köpük (“foam”), from *köp- (“to swell”); cognate with Azerbaijani köpük, Bashkir күбек (kübek), Kazakh көбік (köbık), Kyrgyz көбүк (köbük), Southern Altai кӧбӱк (köbük), Tuvan көвүк (kövük), Uyghur كۆپۈك (köpük) and Uzbek ko'pik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [cœˈpyc]

Noun

كوپوك • (köpük)

1. foam, froth, scum, lather, suds

   Synonyms: رغوه (rugve), كف (kef)

Derived terms

• كوپوكلندرمك (köpüklendirmek, “to make or form froth”)
• كوپوكلنمك (köpüklenmek, “to become froth or foam”)
• كوپوكلو (köpüklü, “frothy, foamy”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: köpük
• → Armenian: քյոփյուկ (kʻyopʻyuk), քյոփյուգ (kʻyopʻyug), քոպուկ (kʻopuk)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “köpük1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2788
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كوپك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 398b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوپوك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1046
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Spuma”, 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 1588
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوپك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4050
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “köpük”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوپوك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1581