تخماق

Persian

Etymology

From a Turkic source, from Proto-Turkic *tokïmak. Compare Azerbaijani toxmaq, Chagatai توخماق (twxmāq /⁠toxmaq⁠/).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? tuxmāq
Dari reading? tuxmāq
Iranian reading? toxmâġ
Tajik reading? tuxmoq

Noun

تخماق • (tuxmāq / toxmâġ) (Tajik spelling тухмоқ)

  1. mallet, beetle, rammer

Alternative forms

  • تقماق (tuqmāq / toġmâġ)

Derived terms

  • تخماقی (tuxmāqī / toxmâġi)
  • تخماقی کردن (tuxmāqī kardan / toxmâġi kardan)

Proper noun

تخماق • (tuxmāq / toxmâġ) (Tajik spelling Тухмоқ)

  1. Tokmok (a city in the Chuy Region, Kyrgyzstan)
    • 1871, Niaz-Muhammad ibn Ashur-Muhammad Khoqandi, Tarikh-i Shahrukhi[1], pages 215–216:
      در آن زمان که حکومات تاشکند تعلق بر قناعت‌شاه، که یکی از عتبه‌بوسان دربار گردون‌مداری بود، داشت، خبر گرفتن اوروسیه قلعه اوچ‌آلمتی مع توابعش و قلعه توخماق و اشتک مع توابعش بر سمع مله‌خان رسانید.
      dar ān zamān ki hukūmāt-i tāškand ta'alluq bar qanā'at-šāh, ki yakē az ataba-bōsān-i darbār-i gardūn-madārī būd, dāšt, xabar-i giriftan-i ōrūsiyya qal'a-yi ūč-ālmatī ma'a tawābi'aš wa qal'a-yi tōxmāq wa aštak ma'a tawābi'aš bar sam'-i malla-xān rasānīd.
      In that time when the administration of Tashkent was under Qana'at-Shah, who was one of the courtiers of the heaven-orbiting court, he conveyed the news of Russia capturing the Uch-Almaty fortress with its dependencies, as well as Tokmok fortress and Ashtak with its dependencies, to the ear of Malla-Khan.

Alternative forms

  • توخماق (tōxmāq / tuxmâġ)

References