قباق
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Turkic *k(i)apak (“forehead, front”).
Influenced by قاپمق (kapmak) by the idea of containing.
Noun
[edit]قباق • (kabak)
- cucurbit
- bald head
- the front, the fronter part of or the space in front of a thing
- Synonym: قبل
- container, calabash, flask etc. in various technical applications
Derived terms
[edit]- قباقجی (kabakcı)
Adjective
[edit]قباق • (kabak)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: kabak
- → Armenian: խապախ (xapax)
- → Bulgarian: каба́к (kabák)
- → Georgian: ყაბაყი (q̇abaq̇i)
- → Macedonian: кабак (kabak)
References
[edit]- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قباق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1431