طوپوق

Ottoman Turkish

طوپوق

Alternative forms

• طوپق (topuk)
• թօփուգ (topuk) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *topïk (“anklebone; heel bone”); cognate with Azerbaijani topuq, Bashkir тубыҡ (tubıq), Kazakh тобық (tobyq), Kyrgyz томук (tomuk), Turkmen topuk, Uyghur توپۇق (topuq), Uzbek topiq and Yakut тобук (tobuk).

Noun

طوپوق • (topuk)

1. anklebone, talus, astragalus, the bone of the ankle

   Synonym: آشیق (aşık)

2. heel, the rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg

   Synonyms: اوكچه (ökçe), عقب (ʿakab)

3. fetlock, the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern

   Synonym: طوپاق (topak)

4. sandbar, a ridge or spit of sand at the mouth of a river

Derived terms

• طوپوق سݣیری (topuk siñiri, “tendon or sinew of the ankle”)
• طوپوق چالمق (topuk çalmak, “to cut the fetlock”)

Descendants

• Turkish: topuk
• → Armenian: թոփուխ (tʻopʻux), թոփուղ (tʻopʻuġ), թոբուխ (tʻobux)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “topuk1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4873
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طوپوق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 811
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Talus”, 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 1648
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طوپق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3135
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “topuk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طوپوق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1250