طوپوق

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Ottoman Turkish

طوپوق

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Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *topïk (anklebone; heel bone); cognate with Azerbaijani topuq, Bashkir тубыҡ (tubıq), Kazakh тобық (tobyq), Kyrgyz томук (tomuk), Turkmen topuk, Uyghur توپۇق (topuq), Uzbek topiq and Yakut тобук (tobuk).

Noun

طوپوق (topuk)

  1. anklebone, talus, astragalus, the bone of the ankle
    Synonym: آشیق (aşık)
  2. heel, the rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg
    Synonyms: اوكچه (ökçe), عقب (ʿakab)
  3. fetlock, the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern
    Synonym: طوپاق (topak)
  4. sandbar, a ridge or spit of sand at the mouth of a river

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: topuk
  • Armenian: թոփուխ (tʻopʻux), թոփուղ (tʻopʻuġ), թոբուխ (tʻobux)

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