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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from an Iranian word of the form kōt-ak, from which Persian کوتنگ (kotang, “heavy stick”); see Arabic كُذِين (kuḏīn, “fuller’s beetle”) for more.
Noun
كوتك • (kötek)
- cudgel, bat, a stout stick with a rounded head used as a weapon
- Synonyms: چوماق (çomak), صوپه (sopa)
- bastinado, a blow with a cudgel or stick, or a beating with sticks
- Synonyms: دكنك (değenek), صوپه (sopa), طیاق (dayak)
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Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kötek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2803
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كوتك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 398b
- Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “كوتك”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 684b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوتك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1046
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fustis”, 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 636
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوتك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4053
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kötek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوتك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1581