темекі

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic تەمەكى
Cyrillic темекі
Latin temekı
Yañalif temekj

Etymology

From Persian تنباکو (tanbâko, “tobacco”), from Arabic طَبَاق (ṭabāq, “a type of medicinal herb”) and طُبَاق (ṭubāq, “(same)”). Cognate with Bashkir тәмәке (təməke), Kyrgyz тамеки (tameki), Uzbek tamaki, Turkmen temmäki, Azerbaijani tənbəki, etc.

Noun

темекі • (temekı)

  1. tobacco, Nicotiana
  2. cigarette
  3. smoking

Declension

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