طالاق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish طلاق (dalaq), from Proto-Turkic *tiālak (“spleen”). Cognate with Azerbaijani dalaq, Bashkir талаҡ (talaq), Kazakh талақ (talaq), Turkmen dalak,Uzbek taloq, Uyghur تال (tal) and Yakut таал (taal).

Noun

طالاق • (dalak) (definite accusative طالاغی (dalağı), plural طالاقلر (dalaklar))

  1. spleen, milt, a ductless, vascular gland located in the left upper abdomen which acts primarily as a blood filter
    Synonyms: سپرز (supurz), طحال (tıhal, tahal)
  2. (figuratively) captive, prisoner of war, one who has been captured by an enemy power during or right after a conflict
    Synonyms: اسیر (esir), طوتساق (tutsak), كرفتار (giriftâr)

Derived terms

  • طالاق اوتی (dalak otu, “spleenwort”)
  • طالاق اولمق (dalak olmak, “to have an inflamed spleen”)
  • طالاق عفونتی (dalak ʼufuneti, “enlargement of the spleen”)
  • طالاقلو (dalaklı, “splenetic”)
  • قیز طالاغی (kız dalağı, “female prisoner of war”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: dalak
  • → Albanian: dalagjásë
  • → Aromanian: dalácã, dãlácã, dãlácu
  • → Bulgarian: дала́к (dalák)
  • → Macedonian: далак (dalak)
  • → Romanian: dalác
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: да̀лак
    Latin script: dàlak

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