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Noun
kauk (dual kauk, plural kaugich)
- walrus skin
Kauk kayumiktuq niġiruni.- Walrus skin is delicious to eat.
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قاوق (kavuk); compare Turkish kavuk.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kǎuk/
- Hyphenation: ka‧uk
Noun
kàuk m (Cyrillic spelling ка̀ук)
- (regional) caouk: a high stiff Turkish hat around which a turban is typically wound or folded
a. 1823, “Banović Strainja”, in Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, editor, Narodne srpske pjesme, volume 2, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, published 1823, page 124:Оћу њима руо пром’јенити,
А у Турско руо облачити:
Око главе бијеле кауке,
А на плећи зелене доламе,
А на ноге меневиш чакшире,
О појасу сабље пламените;- Oću njima ruo prom’jeniti,
A u Tursko ruo oblačiti:
Oko glave bijele kauke,
A na pleći zelene dolame,
A na noge meneviš čakšire,
O pojasu sablje plamenite; - I want to change their apparel,
and in Turkish apparel dress them:
around their heads white caouks,
and on their shoulders green dolmans,
and on their legs violet baggy breeches,
in their belts fiery sabers;
Declension
References
- “kauk”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
- Pero Budmani, editor (1892–1897), “kàuk”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 4, Zagreb: JAZU, page 902