دلاق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• دیلاق (dılak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tïlak (“clitoris”); equivalent to دل (dil, “tongue”) +‎ ـاق (-ak, noun and adjective diminutive suffix). The change from front to back vowel predates the earliest written record in the 11th century: see Turkish dil, which retains the front vowel. Cognate with Azerbaijani dıllaq.

Noun

دلاق • (dılak)

1. clitoris, an erectile organ at the anterior part of the vulva

   Synonyms: بظر (bazr, bezar), دلجك (dilcik)

Descendants

• Turkish: dılak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dılak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1197
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دیلاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 600
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Clitoris”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 192
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dılak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دلاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 910