دلاق
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- دیلاق (dılak)
Etymology
From دل (dil, “tongue”) + ـاق (-ak, noun and adjective diminutive suffix). The change from front to back vowel predates the earliest written record in the 11th century; see Turkish dil, which retains the front vowel. Cognate with Azerbaijani dıllaq.
Noun
دلاق • (dılak)
- clitoris, an erectile organ at the anterior part of the vulva
- Synonyms: بظر (bazr, bezar), دلجك (dilcik)
Descendants
- Turkish: dılak
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “dılak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1197
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دیلاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 600
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Clitoris”, 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 192
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “dılak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دلاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 910