باشمق

Ottoman Turkish

باشمقلر

Alternative forms

• باشماق (başmak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *baĺmak (“shoe, slipper”); cognate with Azerbaijani başmaq, Chuvash пушмак (pušmak), Kumyk башмакъ (başmaq), Southern Altai башмак (bašmak) and Tatar башмак (başmaq).

Noun

باشمق • (başmak) (definite accusative باشمغی (başmağı), plural باشمقلر (başmaklar))

1. shoe, a protective covering for the foot, but especially flat-bottomed ones, like slippers, babouches, or pantofles

   Synonyms: آیاق قابی (ayak kabı), پابوج (pabuc)

Derived terms

• باشمق شریف (başmak-ı şerif, “the holy shoe of Muhammad”)
• باشمقجی (başmakcı, “shoemaker”)
• باشمقدار (başmakdar, “servant in charge of his master's shoes”)
• باشمقلق (başmaklık, “kind of fief”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: başmak
• → Armenian: պաշմաք (pašmakʻ), պաշմախ (pašmax)
• → Ukrainian: башмак (bašmak)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “başmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 499
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “باشمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 102b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باشمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 240
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Crepida”, 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 299
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “باشمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 665
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “başmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باشمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 326