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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
This word ultimately evolved from Proto-Turkic *tāmgāk (“throat”), from *tam- (“to drip; drop”); compare طاملامق (damlamak, “to drip”), طاملا (damla, “drop”) and Azerbaijani damaq.
Noun
طاماق • (damak)
- palate, the roof of the mouth
- barb of a fishhook
- projection in the middle of a horse's bit
- projecting catch in the bolt of a lock
Derived terms
- طاماقسز (damaksız, “without palate”)
- طاماقلو (damaklı, “possessing a palate”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “damak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1090
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طاماق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 795
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Palatum”, 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 1234
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “damak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طاماق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1227