قارموق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *karmak (“fishing rod; hook”); cognate with Azerbaijani qarmaq, Bashkir ҡармаҡ (qarmaq), Khakas хармах (xarmax), Kazakh қармақ (qarmaq), Kyrgyz кармак (karmak), Tatar qarmaq, Uyghur قارماق (qarmaq) and Uzbek qarmoq.

Noun

قارموق • (karmuk) (definite accusative قارموغی (karmuğu), plural قارموقلر (karmuklar))

  1. grappling hook, a type of hook attached to a line and designed to be thrown at a target, like an enemy ship
    Synonym: رامپه (rampa)
  2. grappling iron, a sort of large, metal hook, attached to the end of a line, used to hold two ships together

Descendants

  • Turkish: karmuk

Further reading

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