قباق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قاباق (kabak), قبق (kabak)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *k(i)apak (“forehead, front”).

Influenced by قاپمق (kapmak) by the idea of containing.

Noun

قباق • (kabak)

1. cucurbit
   1. especially a zucchini, marrow, courgette
   2. squash, pumpkin, bottle gourd
2. bald head
3. the front, the fronter part of or the space in front of a thing

   Synonym: قبل

4. container, calabash, flask etc. in various technical applications

Derived terms

• قباقجی (kabakcı)

Adjective

قباق • (kabak)

1. bald, bare of hair
2. tasteless, bare of gustatory attractivity

Descendants

• Turkish: kabak
• → Armenian: խապախ (xapax)
• → Bulgarian: каба́к (kabák)
• → Georgian: ყაბაყი (q̇abaq̇i)
• → Macedonian: кабак (kabak)

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قباق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1431