كوتك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from an Iranian word of the form kōt-ak, see Arabic كُذِين‎ (kuḏīn, “fuller’s beetle”) for more.

Noun

كوتك • (kötek)[1]

cudgel, rod
beating, cudgelling

Descendants

Turkish: kötek
→ Armenian: քոթակ (kʿotʿak)
→ Bulgarian: кьоте́к (kjoték), кюте́к (kjuték)
→ Northern Kurdish: kotek
→ Macedonian: ќотек (ḱotek)
→ Serbo-Croatian: ćotek, ćutek
→ Zazaki: kotek

References

Karapetean, Petros Zēkʿi (1912), “كوتك”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 684b

Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “كوتك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4053

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