دلاق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

دیلاق‎ (dılak)

Etymology

From دل‎ (dil, “tongue”) +‎ ـاق‎ (-ak, noun and adjective diminutive suffix). The change from front to back vowel predates the earliest written record in the 11th century; see Turkish dil, which retains the front vowel. Cognate with Azerbaijani dıllaq.

Noun

دلاق • (dılak)

clitoris, an erectile organ at the anterior part of the vulva
Synonyms: بظر‎ (bazr, bezar), دلجك‎ (dilcik)

Descendants

Turkish: dılak

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Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Clitoris”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 192
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