bacak

Turkish

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bacak

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish باجاق (bacak, “leg; thigh”), from Proto-Turkic *bakań(ak)^[1]^[2] or *bakačuk (“leg”, literally “little frog”), diminutive of *b(i)āka (“frog”).^[3] For a parallel animal simile see Latin musculus (“muscle”, literally “little mouse”).

Cognates

Cognate with Azerbaijani bacaq, Crimean Tatar bacaq and Kazakh бақай (baqay), but compare also Karakhanid بَقانَقْ (baqanaq, baqayaq) or بَقانُقْ (baqanuq, baqayuq, “the 'frog' in a horse's hoof, the gap between the hooves of ungulates”).^[4]

bacak (definite accusative bacağı, plural bacaklar)

leg, the lower limb of the human body extending from the groin to the ankle
leg, a limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion
leg, the part of a garment, such as a pair of trousers, that covers the leg
(card games) knave, jack, a playing card marked with the figure of a servant
Synonyms: fanti, oğlan, vale
synonym of ayak (“leg of an object”)

Declension of bacak

idiomatic uses of "bacak"

^ Clauson, Gerard (1972), “baka:ñak”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 316
^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*bakań”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
^ Clauson, Gerard (1972), “baka:çuk”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 312
^ Mahmud al-Kashgari (1072–1074), Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the Compendium of the Languages of the Turks] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, published 1939–1943.

Playing cards in Turkish · iskambil (layout · text)

as, birli	ikili	üçlü	dörtlü	beşli	altılı	yedili

sekizli	dokuzlu	onlu	bacak, oğlan, vale, fanti	kız	papaz, rua	joker