طوپوق

Ottoman Turkish

طوپوق

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *topïk (anklebone; heel bone); cognate with Azerbaijani topuq, Bashkir тубыҡ (tubıq), Kazakh тобық (tobyq), Kyrgyz томук (tomuk), Turkmen topuk, Uyghur توپۇق (topuq), Uzbek topiq and Yakut тобук (tobuk).

Noun

طوپوق • (topuk)

  1. anklebone, talus, astragalus, the bone of the ankle
    Synonym: آشیق (aşık)
  2. heel, the rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg
    Synonyms: اوكچه (ökçe), عقب (ʿakab)
  3. fetlock, the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern
    Synonym: طوپاق (topak)
  4. sandbar, a ridge or spit of sand at the mouth of a river

Derived terms

  • طوپوق سݣیری (topuk siñiri, tendon or sinew of the ankle)
  • طوپوق چالمق (topuk çalmak, to cut the fetlock)

Descendants

  • Turkish: topuk
  • Armenian: թոփուխ (tʻopʻux), թոփուղ (tʻopʻuġ), թոբուխ (tʻobux)

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