taxûk

Northern Kurdish

Alternative forms

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 (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 (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), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, page 89
  • Mkrtčʻyan, Nerses (2007) Hayerenicʻ pʻoxaṙutʻyunner tʻurkʻereni barbaṙnerum [Armenian borrowings in Turkish dialects] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 100, derives the Turkish from Armenian
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