قایماق
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قایماق
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- قیمق (kaymak)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kańak (“cream, kaymak”); cognate with Azerbaijani qaymaq, Bashkir ҡаймаҡ (qaymaq), Chuvash хӑйма (hăjma), Karakhanid قَيَقْ (“qayaq”), Kazakh қаймақ (qaimaq), Kyrgyz каймак (kaymak), Turkmen gaýmak and Uzbek qaymoq.
Noun
قایماق • (kaymak)
- kaymak, a creamy dairy product similar to clotted cream, made in Turkey
- Synonym: زبده (zübde)
- skimming, a film or pellicle of cream formed on milk or other products when boiled
- Synonym: طهافه (tuhafe)
Derived terms
- قایماق باغلامق (kaymak bağlamak, “to become covered over with a pellicle”)
- قایماق طاشی (kaymak taşı, “alabaster”)
- قایماق گبی (kaymak gibi, “white, smooth, pure”)
- قایماق یاغی (kaymak yağı, “fresh butter”)
- قایماقجی (kaymakcı, “maker or seller of kaymak”)
- قایماقلانمق (kaymaklanmak, “to become clotted cream”)
- قایماقلو (kaymaklı, “mixed or flavored with kaymak”)
- كیرج قایماغی (kirec kaymağı, “cream of lime”)
Descendants
- Gagauz: kaymak
- Turkish: kaymak
- → Armenian: խայմախ (xaymax), ղայմաղ (ġaymaġ), կա̈յմա̈ղ (käymäġ)
- → Bulgarian: Каймак (Kajmak)
- → English: kaymak
- → French: Kajmak
- → Greek: καϊμάκι (kaïmáki)
- → Macedonian: кајмак (kajmak)
- → Persian: قیماق (qeymâq)
- → Polish: kajmak
- → Romanian: caimac
- → Russian: каймак (kajmak)
- → Serbo-Croatian: kajmak, кајмак
- → Slovene: kajmak
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaymak3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2498
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قیمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 380b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قایماق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 941
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cremor lactis”, 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 299
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قیمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3828
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kaymak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قایماق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1429