طوتاق
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Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tutġak (“anything that holds”),[1] a development of *tut- (“to grasp”), whence طوتمق (tutmak, “to hold, grasp”). Compare the similar formation *tutka (“handle”), found in Bashkir тотҡа (totqa), Kazakh тұтқа (tūtqa), Kyrgyz тутка (tutka), Uyghur تۇتقا (tutqa) and Uzbek tutqa.
Noun
[edit]طوتاق • (tutak) (definite accusative طوتاغی (tutağı), plural طوتاقلر (tutaklar))
- handle, the part of an object which is held in the hand when used or moved
- holder, anything that holds, such as an umbrella-holder, a lampholder, etc.
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: tutak
References
[edit]- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tutğa:k”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 453
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tutak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4920
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طوتاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1250