طاماق
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Ultimately from the same root of طاملامق (damlamak, “to drip”) and طاملا (damla, “drop”).
Noun
طاماق • (damak)
- palate, the roof of the mouth
- barb of a fishhook
- projection in the middle of a horse's bit
- projecting catch in the bolt of a lock
Derived terms
- طاماقسز (damaksız, “without palate”)
- طاماقلو (damaklı, “possessing a palate”)
Descendants
- Turkish: damak
- → Armenian: դամաղ (damał), տամաղ (tamał), տամախ (tamax)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “damak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1090
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “طاماق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 795
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Palatum”, 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 1234
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “damak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “طاماق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1227