قواق
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- قاواق (kavak)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kïbak/*kabak (“white poplar, willow”).[1] Cognate with Azerbaijani qovaq and Chuvash хӑва (hăva).
Noun
قواق • (kavak) (definite accusative قواغی (kavağı), plural قواقلر (kavaklar))
Derived terms
- آق قواق (ak kavak, “white poplar”)
- آقجه قواق (akca kavak, “grey poplar”)
- آمریقا قواغی (amerika kavağı, “balsam poplar”)
- تیترك قواق (titrek kavak, “quaking aspen”)
- سلطانی قواق (sultanî kavak, “balsam poplar”)
- سلوی قواغی (selvi kavağı, “Lombardy poplar”)
Descendants
Proper noun
قواق • (kavak)
Descendants
- Turkish: Kavak
References
- ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*kĭ̀ba ( ~ -p-)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Further reading
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- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “قواق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 543
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kavak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2477
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “قواق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 371a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قاواق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 939
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Populus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[3], Vienna, column 1318
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قواق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3776
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kavak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–), “Kavak”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قواق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1478
- Sezen, Tahir (2017), “Kavak”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names][6], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 437