توكوروك

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• توكرك (tükrük), توكروك (tükrük), توكورك (tükürük)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tüpkürük (“saliva”), a development of *tüpkür- (“to spit”), whence توكورمك (tükürmek). Cognate with Bashkir төкөрөк (tökörök) and Kumyk тюкюрюк (tükürük).

Noun

توكوروك • (tükürük)

1. spit, spittle, saliva which has been expelled from the mouth

   Synonyms: بزاق (buzak), تف (tuf)

Derived terms

• توكوروك اوتی (tükürük otu, “star-of-Bethlehem”)
• توكوروك حقه‌سی (tükürük hokkası, “spittoon”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: tükürük

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tükürük”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4935
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “توكرك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 171b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “توكوروك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 417
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sputum”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1589
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “توكرك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1476
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “توكوروك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 613