طالاق

Ottoman Turkish

طالاق

Alternative forms

دالاق (dalak), طلاق (dalak), طلق (dalak)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tiālak, analyzable as from Proto-Turkic *tiāl (“spleen, milt”) +‎ ـاق (-ak, “noun and adjective diminutive suffix”); cognate with Azerbaijani dalaq, Bashkir талаҡ (talaq), Turkmen dalak and Uzbek taloq. See also Uyghur تال (tal), Yakut таал (taal) and Proto-Mongolic *delixün.

Noun

طالاق • (dalak)

spleen, milt, a vascular gland located in the left upper abdomen
Synonyms: سپرز (supurz), طحال (tahal)
(figuratively) prisoner of war, a soldier captured by the enemy

Derived terms

طالاق اوتی (dalak otu, “spleenwort”)
طالاق اولمق (dalak olmak, “to have an inflamed spleen”)
طالاق عفونتی (dalak ʿufuneti, “enlargement of the spleen”)
قیز طالاغی (kiz dalağı, “female prisoner of war”)

Descendants

Turkish: dalak
→ Albanian: dalagjásë
→ Aromanian: dalácã, dãlácã, dãlácu
→ Bulgarian: дала́к (dalák)
→ Macedonian: далак (dalak)
→ Romanian: dalác
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: да̀лак

Latin script: dàlak

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dalak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1083
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طالاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 794
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lien”, 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 949
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طالاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3121
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dalak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طالاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1226

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