كوتك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from an Iranian word of the form kōt-ak, from which Persian کوتنگ (kotang, “heavy stick”); see Arabic كُذِين (kuḏīn, “fuller’s beetle”) for more.

Noun

كوتك • (kötek)

1. cudgel, bat, a stout stick with a rounded head used as a weapon

   Synonyms: چوماق (çomak), صوپه (sopa)

2. bastinado, a blow with a cudgel or stick, or a beating with sticks

   Synonyms: دگنك (değenek), صوپه (sopa), طیاق (dayak)

Derived terms

• كوتك آتمق (kötek atmak, “to beat, cudgel”)
• كوتك باصمق (kötek basmak, “to beat, cudgel”)
• كوتك چالمق (kötek çalmak, “to beat, cudgel”)
• كوتك یمك (kötek yemek, “to be beaten, cudgelled”)

 

Descendants

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

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kötek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2803
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كوتك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 398b
• Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “كوتك”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 684b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوتك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1046
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fustis”, 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 636
• 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^[4], Vienna, column 4053
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kötek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوتك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1581