كمیك
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- كمك (kemik)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kemük (“bone”); cognate with Kumyk гемик (gemik) and Tatar kimek.
Noun
كمیك • (kemik)
- bone, a material consisting of calcium phosphate and collagen
- bone, any of the components of an endoskeleton made with this material
- Synonyms: استخوان (ustuhan), سوموك (sumuk), عظم (ezm)
Derived terms
- كمیكسز (kemiksiz, “boneless”)
- كمیكلو (kemikli, “bony”)
Descendants
- Turkish: kemik
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kemik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2540
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “كمیك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1040
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Os”, 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 1225
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “كمیك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4020
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kemik”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “كمیك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1575