طومشمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Perhaps related to طومشوق (tumşuk, tomşuk, “curved and pointed beak”), from Proto-Common Turkic *tumšuk, and to طومشرمق (domşurmak, “to feed animals in the mouth”). Likely unrelated to Turkish domuşmak (“to sulk”) and Chagatai توموشماق (“to sulk”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

طومشمق • (domuşmak)

  1. (reciprocal, of birds) to preen each other, to clean each other with beaks

Further reading

  • Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “طومشمق”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 911
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طومشمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1263
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