طوداق

Ottoman Turkish

طوداقلر

Alternative forms

• دوداق (dudak)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tōtak (“lip”); cognate with Azerbaijani dodaq, Chuvash тута (tut̬a), Salar dodaq, Turkmen dodak and Uzbek dudoq.

Noun

طوداق • (dudak) (plural طوداقلر (dudaklar))

1. lip, either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth

   Synonyms: شفه (şefe), لب (leb)

Derived terms

• دِلبَر طوداغی (dilber dudağı)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: dudak
• Turkish: dudak
• → Armenian: տուտախ (tutax)
• → Ladino: dudak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dudak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1299
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طوداق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 814
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Labium”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 896
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طوداق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 3139–3140
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dudak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طوداق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1252