خازوق

Arabic

Etymology

A pre-Mamluk Turkic borrowing. This word has later been borrowed again into the Egyptian dialect as قَزَق (qazaq, pole) from its version in Ottoman Turkish قازیق (kazık, pale, stake, post driven into the ground).

Noun

خَازُوق (ḵāzūq) m (plural خَوَازِيق (ḵawāzīq))

  1. pale, stake, pile, impalement, post

Declension

References

  • Procházka, Stephan (2009), “Turkish Loanwords”, in Versteegh, Kees, editor, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, volume 4, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 589-590
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