çapak

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish چاپاق‎ (çapak)[1], ultimately from Proto-Turkic *čalp-. Cognate with Uyghur [script needed] (çapak, “fump, (eye) gum”), Karakhanid [script needed] (çalpak, “dirt”)[2]. Also related to Karakhanid [script needed] (çalpaŋ, “mud”).

Noun

çapak (definite accusative çapağı, uncountable)

  1. rheum, fump, gum (eye)
Descendants
  • → Armenian: չափախ (čʿapʿax)

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish چاپاق‎ (çapak), disambiguated from the previous sense as چاپاق بالغی‎ (çapak balığı),[1] from the same root as çapmak.[3] Cognate with Chuvash ҫупах (śup̬ah).

Noun

çapak

  1. Abramis brama

References
  1. Redhouse, James W. (1890), “چاپاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 698
  2. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “çapak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  3. Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “çapak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 883
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