طوپوق

Ottoman Turkish

طوپوق

Alternative forms

  • طوپق (topuk)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *topïk (anklebone; heel bone); cognate with Azerbaijani topuq, Bashkir тубыҡ (tubıq), Kazakh тобық (tobyq), Kyrgyz томук (tomuk), Turkmen topuk, Uyghur توپۇق (topuq), Uzbek topiq and Yakut тобук (tobuk).

Noun

طوپوق (topuk)

  1. anklebone, talus, astragalus, the bone of the ankle
    Synonym: اسیق (aşık)
  2. heel, the rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg
    Synonyms: اوكچه (ökçe), عقب (ʿakab)
  3. fetlock, the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern
  4. sandbar, a ridge or spit of sand at the mouth of a river

Derived terms

  • طوپوق سݣیر (topuk siñir, tendon or sinew of the ankle)
  • طوپوق چالمق (topuk çalmak, to cut the fetlock)

Descendants

  • Turkish: topuk
  • Armenian: թոփուխ (tʿopʿux), թոփուղ (tʿopʿuł), թոբուխ (tʿobux)

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