طوپوز

Ottoman Turkish

طوپوز

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *topuz (“mace, club”), a development of *top (“round thing, ball”), from which طوپ (top, “ball, knob, globular object”).

Noun

طوپوز • (topuz)

1. knob, a rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface
2. mace, club, bludgeon, any heavy stick used as a weapon

   Synonyms: بوزطوغان (bozdoğan), دبوس (debbus), ششپر (şeşper), گرز (gürz)

Derived terms

• طوپوزلق (topuzluk, “tormentil”)
• طوپوزلو (topuzlu, “furnished with a knob”)
• چادر طوپوزی (çadır topuzu, “ball surmounting a tentpole”)

 

Adjective

طوپوز • (topuz)

1. (of a man) short and roundish

Descendants

• Turkish: topuz
• → Armenian: թոփուզ (tʻopʻuz), ⇒ Թոփուզյան (Tʻopʻuzyan)
• → Romanian: topuz
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: то̀пуз

  Latin script: tòpuz

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “topuz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4874
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طوپوز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 315b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طوپوز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 811
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Clava”, 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 189
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طوپوز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 3135–3136
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “topuz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طوپوز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1250