تزك

Ottoman Turkish

تزك

Alternative forms

• թէզէք (tezek) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *teŕek (“dung”); cognate with Bashkir тиҙәк (tiźək), Kazakh тезек (tezek), Kyrgyz тезек (tezek), Southern Altai тезек (tezek), Uyghur تېزەك (tëzek) and Uzbek tezak.

Noun

تزك • (tezek)

1. dung, manure, animal excrement molded into cakes and dried for fuel

   Synonyms: ترس (ters), فشقی (fışkı), گوبره (göbre, gübre)

Descendants

• Turkish: tezek
• → Armenian: թէզէկ (tʻēzēk)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tezek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4793
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تزك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 154a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تزك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 366
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fimus”, 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 579
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تزك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1169
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tezek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تزك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 542