قایماق

Ottoman Turkish

قایماق

Alternative forms

قیمق (kaymak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kańak (“cream, kaymak”); cognate with Azerbaijani qaymaq, Bashkir ҡаймаҡ (qaymaq), Chuvash хӑйма (hăjma), Karakhanid قَيَقْ (“qayaq”), Kazakh қаймақ (qaimaq), Kyrgyz каймак (kaymak), Turkmen gaýmak and Uzbek qaymoq.

Noun

قایماق • (kaymak)

kaymak, a creamy dairy product similar to clotted cream, made in Turkic countries
Synonym: زبده (zübde)
skimming, a film or pellicle of cream formed on milk or other products when boiled
Synonym: طهافه (tuhafe)

Derived terms

قایماق باغلامق (kaymak bağlamak, “to become covered over with a pellicle”)
قایماق طاشی (kaymak taşı, “alabaster”)
قایماق گبی (kaymak gibi, “white, smooth, pure”)
قایماق یاغی (kaymak yağı, “fresh butter”)
قایماقجی (kaymakcı, “maker or seller of kaymak”)
قایماقلانمق (kaymaklanmak, “to become clotted cream”)
قایماقلو (kaymaklı, “mixed or flavored with kaymak”)
كیرج قایماغی (kirec kaymağı, “cream of lime”)

Descendants

Gagauz: kaymak
Turkish: kaymak
→ Armenian: խայմախ (xaymax), ղայմաղ (ġaymaġ), կա̈յմա̈ղ (käymäġ)
→ Bulgarian: Каймак (Kajmak)
→ English: kaymak
→ French: Kajmak
→ Greek: καϊμάκι (kaïmáki)
→ Macedonian: кајмак (kajmak)
→ Persian: قیماق (qeymâq)
→ Polish: kajmak
→ Romanian: caimac
→ Russian: каймак (kajmak)
→ Serbo-Croatian: kajmak, кајмак
→ Slovene: kajmak

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaymak3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2498
Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قیمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 380b
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قایماق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 941
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cremor lactis”, 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 299
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قیمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3828
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kaymak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قایماق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1429

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