طانق

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tanu-k, from Proto-Turkic *tanu-, whence also طَانِیمَقْ (ṭanımaq, “to know, to recognize”).

Noun

طَانُقْ (danuq, ṭanuq)

1. witness

Descendants

• Ottoman Turkish: طانق (danık, tanık)
  • Turkish: tanık

Further reading

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tanık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• طانیق (danık, tanık)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish طَانُقْ (ṭanuq, danuq), from Proto-Turkic *tanu-k (“witness”), a development of the root *tanu- (“to get to know”), whence also طانیمق (tanımak, “to know, to recognize”). Cognate with Azerbaijani tanıq and Hungarian tanú.

Noun

طانق • (tanık or danık) (definite accusative طانغی (tanığı, danığı), plural طانقلر (tanıklar, danıklar))

1. witness, attester, one who sees or has personal knowledge of something

   Synonyms: شاهد (şâhid), كواه (güvâh)

Derived terms

• طانق ایتمك (tanık etmek, “to testify”)
• طانق ویرمك (tanık vermek, “to testify”)
• طانقلق (tanıklık, “testimony, witness”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: tanık

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “طانیق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 270
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tanık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4580
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طانق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 310b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طانیق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 796
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Testis”, 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 1668
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طانق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3078
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tanık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طانق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1228