كوپك

Ottoman Turkish

كوپك

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *köpek (“dog, hound”); cognate with Azerbaijani köpək, Crimean Tatar köpek, Karakalpak көпек, Kazakh көпек (köpek), Turkmen köpek and Uzbek koʻppak.

Alternative forms

• քէօփէք (köpek) — Armeno-Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [cøˈpɛc]

Noun

كوپك • (köpek) (definite accusative كوپكی (köpeği), plural كوپكلر (köpekler))

1. dog, a mammal of the species Canis familiaris domesticated by humans for thousands of years

   Synonyms: ایت (it), سك (seg), كلب (kelb)

2. (figuratively) dog, someone who is cowardly, a vile, worthless, or morally reprehensible person

Derived terms

• بالغی دیشی (köpek dişi, “canine tooth”)
• بالغیلك (köpeklik, “wickedness, vileness”)
• بكجی كوپك (bekci köpek, “guard dog”)
• قودوز كوپك (kuduz köpek, “rabid dog”)
• كدیله كوپك (kedile köpek, “like cat and dog”)
• كوپك آیاسی (köpek ayası, “horehound”)
• كوپك اوغلی (köpek oğlu, “bastard”, literally “son of a dog”)
• كوپك بالغی (köpek balığı, “dogfish”)
• كوپك كبی (köpek gibi, “doggish”)
• كوپك ممه‌سی (köpek memesi, “bubo”)
• كوپكلمك (köpeklemek, “to become like a dog”)
• كوپكچی (köpekçi, “dog’s herd”)

Descendants

• Turkish: köpek

Further reading

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• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “كوپك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 652
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “köpek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2785
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “كوپك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 398a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “كوپك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1045
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Canis”, 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 142
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “كوپك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4050
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “köpek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “كوپك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1580

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

كوپك • (köpük) (definite accusative كوپكی (köpüğü), plural كوپكلر (köpükler))

1. alternative spelling of كوپوك (köpük, “foam, froth, scum”)

Further reading

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• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “كوپك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 653
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “كوپك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[6], Vienna: F. Beck, page 398b
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “كوپك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[7], Vienna, columns 4050-4051