taxûk

Northern Kurdish

Alternative forms

• taxok, t’exûk, taxork, taxurk, taxûrk, taxor, tawûg

Etymology

Akin to Zazaki tawûg, tawik, tawig. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

taxûk f

1. sleigh, sled, sledge for transporting things over snow and ice

   Synonym: qol

Usage notes

Recorded by Evliya Çelebi in the 17th century as a Kurdish word تاخوك (taxûk).

Descendants

• → Armenian: դահուկ (dahuk), դավուկ (davuk), դաուկ (dauk) (possibly partly from Zazaki)
• → Turkish: tahuk, taḫunk, tahünk, tevik, tevük (possibly partly from Zazaki)

References

• Bruinessen, Martin van (1985) “Onyedinci yüzyılda Kürtler ve dilleri: Kürt lehçeleri üzerine Evliya Çelebi'nin notları”, in Studia Kurdica‎^[1] (in Turkish), numbers 1–3, Paris: Institut Kurde de Paris, page 29 of 13–37 = Bruinessen, Martin van (1988) “Les Kurdes et leur langue au XVIIème siècle: notes d’Evliya Çelebi sur les dialectes kurdes”, in Studia Kurdica‎^[2] (in French), numbers 1–5, Paris: Institut Kurde de Paris, page 30 of 13–34
• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “taxok”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 2), volume II, London: Transnational Press, page 319a
• Dankoff, Robert (1991) An Evliya Çelebi Glossary: Unusual, Dialectal and Foreign Words in the Seyahat-name (Sources of oriental languages and literatures; 14)‎^[3], Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, page 89
• Mkrtčʻyan, Nerses (2007) Hayerenicʻ pʻoxaṙutʻyunner tʻurkʻereni barbaṙnerum‎^[4] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 100, derives the Turkish from Armenian