طرامق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tara- (“to comb”), the same root of طراق (tarak, “comb”); cognate with Azerbaijani daramaq, Bashkir тарау (taraw), Kazakh тарау (tarau), Kyrgyz тароо (taroo), Tatar таратырга (taratırga), Turkmen daramak and Uzbek taramoq.

Verb

طرامق • (taramak)

1. (transitive) to comb, to groom the hair with a toothed implement
2. (transitive) to hackle, to separate the coarse part of flex or hemp from the fine
3. (transitive) to rake, to collect debris or grass with a toothed implement

   Synonym: طرمیقلامق (tırmıklamak)

4. (transitive) to harrow, to drag a harrow over, or to break up with a harrow

Derived terms

• طراق (tarak, “comb”)
• طرامه (tarama, “combing”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: taramak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “taramak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4605
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طرامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 802
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pectere”, 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 1257
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طرامق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3094
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tara-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طرامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1235