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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish طوزاق, from Common Turkic *tuzaq (“snare, trap”).
Cognate with
Old Uyghur (tuzaq, “snare, trap”);
Azerbaijani duzaq,
Kazakh тұзақ (tūzaq),
Kyrgyz тузак (tuzak),
Southern Altai тузак (tuzak),
Uzbek tuzoq,
Bashkir тоҙаҡ (toźaq),
Tuvan дузак (duzak),
Yakut туһах (tuhaq, “snare, trap”),
etc.
Noun
tuzak (definite accusative tuzağı, plural tuzaklar)
- trap, snare
- Synonym: pusu
Declension
Derived terms
References
- “tuzak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طوزاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1255