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)
  • → Malay: cokmar
• → Romanian: ciomag
• → Serbo-Croatian: (dialectal, obsolete)

  Cyrillic script: чома́к, чо̀мага

  Latin script: čomák, čòmaga

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çomak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1031
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چوماق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 192a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چوماق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 481
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Clava lignea”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 190
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چوماق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1684
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çomak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چوماق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 740