قباق
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- قاباق (kabak), قبق (kabak)
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *k(i)apak (“forehead, front”).
Influenced by قاپمق (kapmak) by the idea of containing.
Noun
قباق • (kabak)
- cucurbit
- especially a zucchini, marrow, courgette
- squash, pumpkin, bottle gourd
- bald head
- the front, the fronter part of or the space in front of a thing
- container, calabash, flask etc. in various technical applications
Adjective
قباق • (kabak)
- bald, bare of hair
- tasteless, bare of gustatory attractivity
Descendants
- Turkish: kabak
- → Armenian: խապախ (xapax)
- → Bulgarian: каба̀к (kabàk)
- → Georgian: ყაბაყი (q̇abaq̇i)
- → Macedonian: кабак (kabak)