kauk

kauk (dual kauk, plural kaugich)

1. walrus skin [for food]

   Kauk kayumiktuq niġiruni.

   Walrus skin is delicious to eat.

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قاوق (kavuk); compare Turkish kavuk.

• IPA^(key): /kǎuk/
• Hyphenation: ka‧uk

kàuk m inan (Cyrillic spelling ка̀ук)

1. (regional) caouk: a high stiff Turkish hat around which a turban is typically wound or folded
   • a. 1823, “Banović Strainja”, in Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, editor, Narodne srpske pjesme‎^[1], volume 2, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, published 1823, page 124:

     Оћу њима руо пром’јенити,
     А у Турско руо облачити:
     Око главе бијеле кауке,
     А на плећи зелене доламе,
     А на ноге меневиш чакшире,
     О појасу сабље пламените;

     Oću njima ruo prom’jeniti,
     A u Tursko ruo oblačiti:
     Oko glave bijele kauke,
     A na pleći zelene dolame,
     A na noge meneviš čakšire,
     O pojasu sablje plamenite;

     I want to change their apparel,
     and in Turkish apparel dress them:
     around their heads white caouks,
     and on their shoulders green dolmans,
     and on their legs violet baggy breeches,
     in their belts fiery sabers;

• “kauk”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
• Pero Budmani, editor (1892–1897), “kàuk”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[2] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 4, Zagreb: JAZU, page 902