طوقماق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tokïmak (“club, mallet”),[1] perhaps a derivation from *tokï- (“to hit, strike”).

Noun

طوقماق • (tokmak) (definite accusative طوقماغی (tokmağı), plural طوقماقلر (tokmaklar))

  1. large wooden rod for pestle, used in conjunction with a large mortar of stone called دیبك (dibek)
  2. mallet, beetle, a type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head made of wood, used for driving a tool
  3. knocker, doorknocker, a device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door
  4. (firearms) hammer, a moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun

Derived terms

  • دینك طوقماغی (dinek tokmağı, “threshing floor”)
  • كولباصدی طوقماغی (külbasdı tokmağı, “meat mallet, tenderizer”)
  • چاماشیر طوقماغی (çamaşır tokmağı, “fuller's beetle”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: tokmak
  • → Albanian: tokmak
  • → Arabic:
    → Egyptian Arabic: دُقْمَاق (duʔmāʔ)
    → North Levantine Arabic: دُقْمَاق (duʔmāʔ)
    → Yemeni Arabic: طِقْمَاق (ṭigmāg)
  • → Armenian: թոխմախ (tʻoxmax)
  • → Bulgarian: токма́к (tokmák)
  • → Ladino: tokmak
  • → Macedonian: токмак (tokmak)
  • → Romanian: tocmac
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: то̀кмак
    Latin script: tòkmak

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tokı:mak”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 470

Further reading

  • Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “طوقمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 320
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طوقمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 318a
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طوقماق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 819
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Malleus ligneus”, 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 994
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طوقمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎[4], Vienna, column 3148
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tokmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طوقماق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1258
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