قباق

Ottoman Turkish

قباقلر

Alternative forms

• قاباق (kabak), قبق (kabak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kabak or *kapak (“gourd, pumpkin, marrow”), a diminutive of *kab (“cover; container”); equivalent to قاب (kab, “cover, envelope”) +‎ ـاق (-ak, noun and adjective diminutive suffix). Cognate with Azerbaijani qabaq, Kazakh қабақ (qabaq), Salar gabaq and Tatar кабак (qabaq).

Noun

قباق • (kabak) (definite accusative قباغی (kabağı), plural قباقلر (kabaklar))

1. (in general) cucurbit, any member of the large family Cucurbitaceae of gourds, squashes and pumpkins

   Synonyms: قرع (karʼ), كدو (kedü)

2. calabash, a container made from the mature, dried shell of a cucurbit, or a similarly shaped container
3. (figuratively, humorous) bald head, a head having no hair or having a large area of bare scalp on top

Adjective

قباق • (kabak)

1. bald, callow, having no hair on the head, or having a large area of bare scalp on top of the head

   Synonyms: صاچسز (saçsız), طاز (taz), طازلاق (tazlak), كل (kel)

2. (of vegetables or fruits) tasteless, bland, insipid, flavorless, bare of gustatory attractivity or flavor

Derived terms

• آرمود قباغی (armud kabağı, “chayote”)
• آصمه قباغی (asma kabağı, “variety of cucurbit”)
• باروت قباغی (barut kabağı, “powder flask”)
• باشی قباغی (başı kabağı, “whose head is bald”)
• بال قباغی (bal kabağı, “bottle gourd”)
• تاج قباغی (tac kabağı, “variety of cucurbit”)
• حلواجی قباغی (helvacı kabağı, “winter squash”)
• ساقز قباغی (sakız kabağı, “marrow of Scio”)
• سمیز قباق (semiz kabak, “white bryony”)
• صو قباغی (su kabağı, “pumpkin”)
• قباق باشه پاتلامق (kabak başa patlamak, “for a disaster, to befall one”)
• قباق باغلامق (kabak bağlamak, “to tie dried gourds as support when trying to swim”)
• قباق ترازو (kabak terazi, “ballcock”)
• قباق طادی ویرمك (kabak tadı virmek, “to annoy, bother”)
• قباقجی (kabakcı, “grower or seller of cucurbits”)
• قنطار قباغی (kantar kabaği, “large variety of pumpkin”)
• قیش قباغی (kış kabağı, “winter melon”)
• نشان قباغی (nişan kabağı, “gourd set up as a target”)

Descendants

• Gagauz: kabak
• Turkish: kabak
• → Armenian: խապախ (xapax)
• → Bulgarian: каба́к (kabák)
• → Georgian: ყაბაყი (q̇abaq̇i)
• → Macedonian: кабак (kabak)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “قباق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 487
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kabak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2303
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قباق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 355a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قباق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 943
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cucurbita”, 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 306
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قباق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3610
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kabak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قباق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1431