چوماق

Ottoman Turkish

چوماق

Alternative forms

  • چومق (çomak), چمق (çomak), چماق (çomak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čokmak (mace, club, cudgel); cognate with Chuvash чукмар (čukmar), Kumyk чокмар (çokmar), Kyrgyz чокмар (cokmar), Tatar чукмар (çuqmar), Turkmen чокмар and Uzbek чукмор (chukmor).

Noun

چوماق • (çomak)

  1. cudgel, bat, truncheon, a stout stick with a rounded head used as a weapon
    Synonyms: صوپه (sopa), كوتك (kötek)

Derived terms

  • چوماقدار (çomakdar, warrior armed with a cudgel)

Descendants

  • Turkish: çomak
  • Armenian: չոմախ (čʻomax)
  • Bulgarian: чомак (čomak), чомага (čomaga), чумак (čumak), джумага (džumaga), чомуга (čomuga) (dialectal, obsolete)
  • Macedonian: чомак (čomak) (obsolete)
  • Persian: چماق (čomâq)
  • Romanian: ciomag
  • Serbo-Croatian: (dialectal, obsolete)
    Cyrillic script: чома́к, чо̀мага
    Latin script: čomák, čòmaga

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