طوقماق

Ottoman Turkish

طوقماق

Alternative forms

• توقماق (tokmak), طوقمق (tokmak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tokïmak (“club, mallet”), perhaps a derivation from *tokï- (“to hit, strike”).

Noun

طوقماق • (tokmak) (definite accusative طوقماغی (tokmağı), plural طوقماقلر (tokmaklar))

1. large wooden rod for pestle, used in conjunction with a large mortar of stone called دیبك (dibek)
2. mallet, beetle, a type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head made of wood, used for driving a tool
3. knocker, doorknocker, a device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door
4. (firearms) hammer, a moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun

Derived terms

• دینك طوقماغی (dinek tokmağı, “threshing floor”)
• كولباصدی طوقماغی (külbasdı tokmağı, “meat mallet, tenderizer”)
• چاماشیر طوقماغی (çamaşır tokmağı, “fuller's beetle”)

Descendants

• Turkish: tokmak
• → Albanian: tokmak
• → Arabic:

  → Egyptian Arabic: دُقْمَاق (duʔmāʔ, “mallet”)

  → North Levantine Arabic: دُقْمَاق (duʔmāʔ, “pestle”)

  → North Levantine Arabic: دِيمِاقة (dīmēʔa, “pestle”) (South Lebanon)

  → Yemeni Arabic: طِقْمَاق (ṭigmāg)

• → Armenian: թոխմախ (tʻoxmax)
• → Bulgarian: токма́к (tokmák)
• → Ladino: tokmak
• → Macedonian: токмак (tokmak)
• → Romanian: tocmac
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: то̀кмак

  Latin script: tòkmak

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “طوقمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 320
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “طوقمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 318a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “طوقماق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 819
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Malleus ligneus”, 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 994
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “طوقمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3148
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “tokmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “طوقماق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1258