توكوروك حقهسی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From توكوروك (tükürük, “spit”) + حقه (hokka, “pot, cup”).
Noun
توكوروك حقهسی • (tükürük hokkası)
- spittoon, spit-cup, a receptacle for spit, used especially by people using chewing tobacco or snuff
Descendants
- Turkish: tükürük hokkası
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881), “حقه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 659
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “tükürük”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4935
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “توكوروك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 417
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “حقه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 795