كمیك

Ottoman Turkish

كمیك

Alternative forms

• كمك (kemik)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kemük (“bone”); cognate with Kumyk гемик (gemik) and Tatar kimek.

Noun

كمیك • (kemik)

1. bone, a material consisting of calcium phosphate and collagen
2. bone, any of the components of an endoskeleton made with this material

   Synonyms: استخوان (ustuhan), سوموك (sumuk), عظم (ʿazm)

Derived terms

• بالدر كمیكی (baldır kemiğı, “calf bone”)
• قویروق كمیكی (kuyruk kemiği, “tailbone”)
• كمیكسز (kemiksiz, “boneless”)
• كمیكلو (kemikli, “bony”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kemik

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kemik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2540
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كمیك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1040
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Os”, 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 1225
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4020
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kemik”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كمیك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1573