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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian نمک (namak).
Noun
نمك • (nemek)
- salt, a common substance chemically consisting of sodium chloride
- Synonyms: طوز (tuz), ملح (milh)
- taste, flavour, especially a sweet or pleasant one
- Synonyms: چاشنی (çeşni), ذوق (zevk), طات (tat), لذت (lezzet), مزه (meze)
- (figuratively) Attic salt, pointed and delicate wit
Derived terms
- نمك آب (nemek-ab, “brine”)
- نمك بحرام (nemek-be-haram, “ungrateful”)
- نمكپش (nemekceş, “taste, small sample of food”)
- نمكین (nemekin, “salted, flavored with salt”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tırnak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4815
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1288
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sal”, 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 1502
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “نمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5260
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2107