طاوق
Ottoman Turkish
طاوق
Alternative forms
- طاووق (tavuk)
Etymology
From the older form طاقوق (takuk), from Proto-Turkic *tiakïgu (“hen, fowl”); cognate with Azerbaijani toyuq, Bashkir тауыҡ (tawıq), Chuvash чӑх (čăh), Kazakh тауық (tauyq), Kyrgyz тоок (took), Tatar тавык (tawıq), Turkmen towuk, Uyghur توخۇ (toxu) and Uzbek tovuq.
Noun
طاوق • (tavuk)
- hen, an adult female of the species Gallus gallus
- Synonyms: دیكه (dike), ماكیان (makiyan)
- (in general) fowl, any bird in the order Galliformes
- Synonym: دجاج (decac)
Coordinate terms
- جیوجیو (civciv, “chick”)
- خروس (horos, “rooster, cock”)
- پلیچ (piliç, “pullet”)
Derived terms
- طاوقجی (tavukcu, “keeper of chickens”)
- طاوقلق (tavukluk, “coop, henhouse”)
- طاوقگوتی (tavukgötü, “wart”)
- قره طاوق (kara tavuk, “blackbird”)
- یابان طاوغی (yaban tavuğu, “grouse”)
Descendants
- Turkish: tavuk
- → Armenian: թավուխ (tʿavux)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “tavuk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4648
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “طاووق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 797
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Gallina”, 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 639
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “طاوق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 3079
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “tavuk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “طاقوق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 883