یناق

Ottoman Turkish

یناق

Alternative forms

• یݣاق (yañak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yạyŋak (“cheek”); cognate with Azerbaijani yanaq, Bashkir яңаҡ (yañaq), Southern Altai јаак (ǰaak), Tatar яңак (yañaq), Turkmen ýaňak and Uzbek yonoq.

Noun

یناق • (yanak)

1. cheek, the soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes

   Synonyms: خد (hadd), رخ (ruh), عارض (ʿariz)

Derived terms

• آل یناق (al yanak, “rosy-cheeked”)
• یناق یومروجغی (yanak yumrucuğu, “cheekbone”)
• یناقلق (yanaklık, “anything special for the cheek”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: yanak
• → Armenian: յանախ (yanax)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yanak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5192
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یكاق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 508a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یناق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1360
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gena”, 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 643
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یكاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5589
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yanak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یناق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2211