قارموق

Ottoman Turkish

قارموق

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *karmak (“fishing rod; hook”); cognate with Azerbaijani qarmaq, Bashkir ҡармаҡ (qarmaq), Khakas хармах (xarmax), Kazakh қармақ (qarmaq), Kyrgyz кармак (karmak), Tatar qarmaq, Uyghur قارماق (qarmaq) and Uzbek qarmoq.

Noun

قارموق • (karmuk) (definite accusative قارموغی (karmuğu), plural قارموقلر (karmuklar))

1. grappling hook, a type of hook attached to a line and designed to be thrown at a target, like an enemy ship

   Synonym: رامپه (rampa)

2. grappling iron, a sort of large, metal hook, attached to the end of a line, used to hold two ships together

Descendants

• Turkish: karmuk

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “قارموق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 453
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karmuk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2443
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قارموق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 925
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قارموق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1412