قارموق

Ottoman Turkish

قارموق

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *karmak (“fishing rod; hook”); cognate with Azerbaijani qarmaq, Bashkir ҡармаҡ (qarmaq), Khakas хармах (xarmax), Kazakh қармақ (qarmaq), Kyrgyz кармак (karmak), Tatar qarmaq, Uyghur قارماق (qarmaq) and Uzbek qarmoq.

Noun

قارموق • (karmuk)

grappling hook, a type of hook designed to be thrown at a target

Descendants

Turkish: karmuk

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karmuk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2443
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قارموق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 925
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قارموق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1414

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