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Gagauz
Etymology
Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish بَشَاقْ (başaq, “arrowhead”), بَاشَاقْ (başaq) from Proto-Turkic *baĺčak, a derivation from Proto-Turkic *baĺč[1]. The sense of "grain ear" is attested since atleast 1680[2]. By surface analysis, baş + -ak. Compare Turkish başak, Azerbaijani başak.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɑˈʃɑk/
- Hyphenation: ba‧şak
Noun
başak (definite accusative başaa, plural başaklar)
- (botany, anatomy) ear or head of a grain plant
- (weaponry) arrowhead
Declension
declension of başak
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singular (tekil)
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plural (çoğul)
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| nominative (yalın)
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başak
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başaklar
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| definite accusative (belirtme)
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başaa
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başakları
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| dative (yönelme)
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başaa
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başaklara
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| locative (bulunma)
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başakta
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başaklarda
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| ablative (çıkma)
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başaktan
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başaklardan
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| genitive (tamlayan)
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başaan
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başakların
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Derived terms
References
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “başak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “başak”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 663-664
Further reading
- Baskakov, N. A. (1991) “başak”, in İsmail Kaynak, A. Mecit Doğru, transl., Gagauz Türkçesinin Sözlüğü [The Dictionary of Gagauz Turkish] (in Turkish), Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, page 30
- N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “башак”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 75
- Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “başak”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 27
- Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “başak”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 15
Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish باشاق (başak), itself from Proto-Turkic *bašaq (“ear”).
Pronunciation
Noun
başak (definite accusative başağı, plural başaklar)
- (botany) ear, spike, head, the fruiting body of a grain plant
- (weaponry) arrowhead, the pointed part of an arrow
- Synonym: temren
- (in harvesting) fallen or left behind ear of corn in a field
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading