قباق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

قاباق (kabak), قبق (kabak)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *k(i)apak (“forehead, front”).

Influenced by قاپمق (kapmak) by the idea of containing.

Noun

قباق • (kabak)

cucurbit
1. especially a zucchini, marrow, courgette
2. squash, pumpkin, bottle gourd
bald head
the front, the fronter part of or the space in front of a thing
Synonym: قبل
container, calabash, flask etc. in various technical applications

Derived terms

قباقجی (kabakcı)

Adjective

قباق • (kabak)

bald, bare of hair
tasteless, bare of gustatory attractivity

Descendants

Turkish: kabak
→ Armenian: խապախ (xapax)
→ Bulgarian: каба́к (kabák)
→ Georgian: ყაბაყი (q̇abaq̇i)
→ Macedonian: кабак (kabak)

References

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قباق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1431

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