باجاق
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Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
Etymology
According to Nishanyan, the word is directly from Middle Turkic (bağacak) or (bağancak, "the lower part of the horse's and sheep's leg"); which has evolved from Old Turkic (baḳačuk, “bicep muscle, the purlin part of the horse's foot”). Diminutive of Old Turkic (baka, “frog”). Compare Latin mūsculus for semantic development.
Noun
باجاق • (bacak)
- leg, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle
- Synonym: آیاق (ayak)
- thigh, the part of the leg between the hip and the knee
- shank, the part of the leg between the knee and the ankle
- Synonym: اینجك (incik)
- knave, jack in playing cards
Coordinate terms
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| بك (bey), برلی (birli) | ایكیلی (ikili) | اوچلی (üçlü) | درتلی (dörtlü) | بشلی (beşli) | آلتیلی (altılı) | یدیلی (yedili) |
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| سكزلی (sekizli) | طقوزلی (dokuzlu) | اونلی (onlu) | باجاق (bacak), اوغلان (oğlan), فانتی (fanti) | قیز (kız) | پاپاز (papaz) | |
Derived terms
- آرد باجاق (ard bacak, “hind leg”)
- باجاق قلمی (bacak kalemi, “shinbone”)
- باجاقسز (bacaksız, “short-legged”)
- باجاقلو (bacaklı, “long-legged”)
Descendants
- Turkish: bacak
- → Armenian: պաճախ (pačax), բաջաղ (baǰaġ)
- → Bulgarian: баджа́к (badžák)
- → Greek: μπατζάκι (batzáki)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bacak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 415
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باجاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 232
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Femen”, 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 561
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “باجاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 627
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bacak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باجاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 315
- Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “باجاق”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 158