طاشاق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • طاشق (taşak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tašak (testicle),[1] probably a dimunitive of *tiāĺ (stone); equivalent to طاش (taş, stone) + ـاق (-ak, noun and adjective diminutive suffix). Cognate with Azerbaijani daşşaq, Crimean Tatar taşaq, Karachay-Balkar ташакъ (taşaq), Kazakh тасақ (tasaq), Kipchak طشاق and Kyrgyz ташак (taşak).

Noun

طاشاق • (taşak)

  1. testicle, the male sex and endocrine gland, found in some types of animals
    Synonyms: بیضه (beyza), خایه (haya), خصیه (husye)

Derived terms

  • تك طاشاق (tek taşak, monorchis)
  • تلكی طاشاغی (tilki taşağı, green-winged orchid)
  • دبه طاشاق (debe taşak, inguinal hernia)
  • طاشاقسز (taşaksız, without testicles)
  • طاشاقلی (taşaklı, provided with testicles)

Descendants

  • Turkish: taşak
  • Armenian: թաշախ (tʻašax)
  • Macedonian: ташак (tašak)

References

  1. Clauson, Gerard (1972) “taşak”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 562

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