بكك
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology 1
A development from بك (beñ, “mole, freckle”).
Alternative forms
- بنك (benek)
Noun
بكك • (beñek)
- small spot or speckle of a different color from what surrounds it
Derived terms
- بككلتمك (beñeklatmek, “to make or let be spotted”)
- بككلمك (beñeklemek, “to spot or speckle”)
- بككلنمك (beñeklenmek, “to become marked with spots”)
- بككلو (beñekli, “spotted, speckled”)
Descendants
- Turkish: benek
- → Armenian: պենենկ (penenk), պենեք (penekʿ)
- → Romanian: benic
Noun
بكك • (beyiñ)
- genitive singular of بك
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “benek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 545
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بكك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 273
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Macula”, 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, Vienna, column 981
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “بكك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 903
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “benek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بكك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 377