مالاق

Ottoman Turkish

مالاق

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bālak (“baby animal”), a development of *bāla (“young animal; child”). For the change of initial consonant /b/ > /m/, compare مقره (makara, “pulley”), منتشه (menteşe, “hinge”), منكشه (menekşe, “violet”) and میان (mıyan, “licorice”).

Noun

مالاق • (malak)

1. buffalo calf, the young of a buffalo

Descendants

• Turkish: malak
• → Armenian: մալախ (malax), մալագ (malag)
• → Bulgarian: мала́к (malák)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “malak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 5, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3034
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مالاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1094
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “malak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مالاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1659