چوماق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • چومق (çomak), چمق (çomak), چماق (çomak)

Etymology

    Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čokmak (“mace, club, cudgel”); cognate with Chuvash чукмар (čukmar), Kumyk чокмар (çokmar), Kyrgyz чокмар (cokmar), Tatar чукмар (çuqmar), Turkmen чокмар and Uzbek чукмор (chukmor).

    Noun

    چوماق • (çomak)

    1. cudgel, bat, truncheon, a stout stick with a rounded head used as a weapon
      Synonyms: صوپه (sopa), كوتك (kötek)

    Derived terms

    • چوماقدار (çomakdar, “warrior armed with a cudgel”)

    Descendants

    • Turkish: çomak
    • → Armenian: չոմախ (čʻomax)
    • → Bulgarian: чомак (čomak), чомага (čomaga), чумак (čumak), джумага (džumaga), чомуга (čomuga) (dialectal, obsolete)
    • → Macedonian: чомак (čomak) (obsolete)
    • → Persian: چماق (čomâq)
    • → Romanian: ciomag
    • → Serbo-Croatian: (dialectal, obsolete)
      Cyrillic script: чома́к, чо̀мага
      Latin script: čomák, čòmaga

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