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Turkish
Etymology
From the onomatopoeic root dab (“kicking, jerking movement”). Cognate with Azerbaijani dabaq.
Noun
dabak (dialectal)
- foot-and-mouth disease
Descendants
- → Armenian: դաբաղ (dabaġ) (partly)
References
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dabak (2)”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1068b
- “dabak (1)”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963, page 1311b