قازیق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kaŕguk (“pole, stake”), a development of *kaŕ- (“to dig, delve”).

Cognates

Cognate with Azerbaijani qazıx, Bashkir ҡаҙаҡ (qaźaq), Kazakh қазық (qazyq), Kyrgyz казык (kazık), Turkmen gazyk, Uyghur قوزۇق (qozuq) and Uzbek qoziq.

Noun

قازیق • (kazık) (definite accusative قازیغی (kazığı), plural قازیقلر (kazıklar))

  1. stake, picket, pale, a piece of wood pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker, or support
    Synonym: وتد (veted)
  2. axle, pivot, a metal, pointed pin or spindle in machinery on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel
    Synonyms: ایك (iğ), دنكل (dingil), قطب (kutb, kutub), محور (mihver)
  3. (figuratively) trick, cheat, fraud, ruse, imposition, any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair gain
    Synonyms: اویون (oyun), طولاب (dolab), كلاه (külah)

Derived terms

  • دمیر قازیق (demir kazık, “North Star”, literally “iron stake”)
  • صاغلام قازیق (sağlam kazık, “secure foundation”)
  • قازیغه اورمق (kazığa urmak, “to impale”)
  • قازیق ایتمك (kazık etmek, “to cheat, swindle”)
  • قازیق حماسی (kazık humması, “acute tetanus”)
  • قازیق صوقمق (kazık sokmak, “to drive in a stake”)
  • قازیق قاقمق (kazık kakmak, “to drive in a stake”)
  • قازیق چاقمق (kazık çakmak, “to drive in a stake”)
  • قازیق یمك (kazık yemek, “to be cheated, get snowed”)
  • قازیقجی (kazıkcı, “swindler, trickster”)
  • قازیقلاتمق (kazıklatmak, “to make or let be impaled”)
  • قازیقلامق (kazıklamak, “to impale”)
  • قازیقلانمق (kazıklanmak, “to be impaled”)
  • قازیقلو (kazıklı, “furnished with stakes or pegs”)
  • چادر قازیغی (çadır kazığı, “tent-pin”)
  • قازمق (kazmak, “to dig, delve, excavate”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: kazık
  • → Egyptian Arabic: قزق (qazaq)
  • → Romanian: cazic

Further reading

click to expand
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.