dabak

Turkish

Alternative forms
  • dabah, dabaḫ, dabağ

Etymology

From the onomatopoeic root dab (“kicking, jerking movement”). Cognate with Azerbaijani dabaq.

Noun

dabak (dialectal)

  1. foot-and-mouth disease

Descendants
  • → Armenian: դաբաղ (dabaġ) (partly)

References
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dabak (2)”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1068b
  • “dabak (1)”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1993, page 1311b
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