نمك

See also: نمک

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian نمک (namak).

Noun

نمك • (nemek)

1. salt, a common substance chemically consisting of sodium chloride

   Synonyms: طوز (tuz), ملح (milh)

2. taste, flavour, especially a sweet or pleasant one

   Synonyms: چاشنی (çeşni), ذوق (zevk), طات (tat), لذت (lezzet), مزه (meze)

3. (figuratively) Attic salt, pointed and delicate wit

Derived terms

• نمك آب (nemek-ab, “brine”)
• نمك بحرام (nemek-be-haram, “ungrateful”)
• نمكپش (nemekceş, “taste, small sample of food”)
• نمكین (nemekin, “salted, flavored with salt”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: nemek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tırnak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4815
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1288
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sal”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1502
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “نمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 5260
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2107