طاوق

Ottoman Turkish

طاوق

Alternative forms

• طاووق (tavuk)
• թավուգ (tavuk) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From the older form طاقوق (takuk), from Proto-Turkic *tiakïgu (“hen, fowl”); cognate with Azerbaijani toyuq, Bashkir тауыҡ (tawıq), Chuvash чӑх (čăh), Kazakh тауық (tauyq), Kyrgyz тоок (took), Tatar тавык (tawıq), Turkmen towuk, Uyghur توخۇ (toxu) and Uzbek tovuq.

Noun

طاوق • (tavuk)

1. hen, an adult female of the species Gallus gallus

   Synonyms: دیكه (dike), ماكیان (makiyan)

2. (in general) fowl, any bird in the order Galliformes

   Synonym: دجاج (decac)

Coordinate terms

• جیوجیو (civciv, “chick”)
• خروس (horos, “rooster, cock”)
• پلیچ (piliç, “pullet”)

 

Derived terms

• طاوقجی (tavukcu, “keeper of chickens”)
• طاوقلق (tavukluk, “coop, henhouse”)
• طاوقگوتی (tavukgötü, “wart”)
• قره طاوق (kara tavuk, “blackbird”)
• یابان طاوغی (yaban tavuğu, “hazel grouse”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: tavuk
• → Armenian: թավուխ (tʻavux)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tavuk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4648
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طاووق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 797
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gallina”, 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, Vienna, column 639
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طاوق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3079
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tavuk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طاقوق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 883