قیزاق

Ottoman Turkish

قیزاق

Alternative forms

• قزاق (kızak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kïŕak (“sledge, sleigh; skate”); cognate with Azerbaijani xizək, Bashkir ҡуҙы (quźı), Karakhanid [script needed] (qızaq), Tatar кызав (qızaw) and Uyghur [script needed] (quzuq).

Noun

قیزاق • (kızak)

1. sledge, sled, sleigh, every vehicle which moves over snow or ice
2. skate, a runner or blade fastened under the foot and used for gliding on ice

Derived terms

• قیزاق قایمق (kızak kaymak, “to skate or slide on ice”)
• قیزاقلق (kızaklak, “piece of timber fit for a sledge”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kızak
• → Armenian: խզախ (xzax), խզակ (xzak)
• → Egyptian Arabic: قزق (qazaq)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kızak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2657
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قزاق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 363b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قیزاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 998
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Traha”, 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 1685
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قزاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3688
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kızak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیزاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1506