sakak

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish صقاق (sakak, “dewlap; double chin”), itself from Proto-Turkic *sakak (“gill; dewlap”). Cognate with Uyghur ساقاق (saqaq).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sa‧kak

Noun

sakak (definite accusative sakağı, plural sakaklar)

1. dewlap, the pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, or a similar feature on any other animal
2. double chin, dewlap, a layer of subcutaneous fat under the chin of a person

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	sakak
Definite accusative	sakağı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sakak	sakaklar
Definite accusative	sakağı	sakakları
Dative	sakağa	sakaklara
Locative	sakakta	sakaklarda
Ablative	sakaktan	sakaklardan
Genitive	sakağın	sakakların

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sakak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4025
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 807b
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sakak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük