амак

From Proto-Turkic *emgek (“bother, worry”). Compare Turkish emek (“labor, work”), Tatar имгәк (imgäk, “trouble”), Bashkir имгәк (imgək, “trouble, mutilation”) and Yakut эмэх (emeq, “rotten”).

Related to аман (aman, “to be maimed, to be wounded”).

амак • (amak)

1. illness, disease

• ача амакӗ (ač̬a amak̬ĕ, “postpartum tremor”) (lit. "child disease") (cf. ача (ač̬a))
• тутамак (tut̬amak, “epilepsy”) (lit. "being held-down disease") (cf. тыт (tyt))
• кӑсамак (kăs̬amak, “measles”)
• сарамак (saramak, “jaundice”) (lit. "yellow disease") (cf. сарӑ (sară), Turkish sarılık (“jaundice”))
• хӑнтӑрамак (hănt̬ăramak, “severe pain in sweat, white heat”) (lit. "beaver disease") (cf. хӑнтӑр (hănt̬ăr))

• “амак”, in Электронлă сăмахсар‎ (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.
• Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “амак”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, pages 25-26

Inherited from Classical Persian عَمَک (amak)

• IPA^(key): /aˈmak/,

амак • (amak) (Persian spelling عمک)

1. paternal uncle

   Coordinate term: тағо (taġo)

1. амма (amma) (paternal aunt)
2. хола (xola) (maternal aunt)