İnsan bacakları. -Human legs.Inherited fromOttoman Turkishباجاق(bacaḳ,“the leg, the thigh”),[1][2] fromProto-Turkic*bakañ(ak)[3] or*bakačuk(“leg”, literally“little frog”), diminutive of*b(i)āka(“frog”).[4] For a parallel animal simile see;Latinmusculus(“muscle”, literally“little mouse”).[5][6] Also compareKarakhanidبَقانَقْ(baqanaq, baqayaq) orبَقانُقْ(baqanuq, baqayuq,“the 'frog' in a horse's hoof, the gap between the hooves of ungulates”).[7]
- IPA(key): /baˈd͡ʒak/
- Hyphenation:ba‧cak
bacak (definite accusativebacağı,pluralbacaklar)
- leg(lower limb fromgroin toankle)
- Thelimb for walking, jumping or support in animals.
- Theprotruding part of an object that keeps it high above the ground.
- Synonym:ayak
- (clothing) The part of clothing thatcovers each leg.
- knave,jack inplaying cards
- Synonyms:oğlan,vale
- ^Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باجاق”, inA Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian,page315
- ^Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باجاق”, inDictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran,page232
- ^Starostin, Sergei,Dybo, Anna,Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bakań”, inEtymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^Clauson, Gerard (1972) “baka:ñak”, inAn Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press,page316
- ^Clauson, Gerard (1972) “baka:çuk”, inAn Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press,page312
- ^Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bacak”, inNişanyan Sözlük
- ^al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074)Besim Atalay, transl.,Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları;521) (in Turkish),1985 edition, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published1939–1943
