sakak
Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish صقاق (sakak, “dewlap; double chin”), itself from Proto-Turkic *sakak (“gill; dewlap”). Cognate with Uyghur ساقاق (saqaq).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sa‧kak
Noun
sakak (definite accusative sakağı, plural sakaklar)
- dewlap, the pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, or a similar feature on any other animal
- double chin, dewlap, a layer of subcutaneous fat under the chin of a person
Declension
| Inflection | ||
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sakak | |
| Definite accusative | sakağı | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | sakak | sakaklar |
| Definite accusative | sakağı | sakakları |
| Dative | sakağa | sakaklara |
| Locative | sakakta | sakaklarda |
| Ablative | sakaktan | sakaklardan |
| Genitive | sakağın | sakakların |
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sakak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4025
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 807b
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sakak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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