𐰖𐰴

ayak

Meaning:

cup, goblet, bowl; individual drinking vessel

Distinct from aḏak > ayak ‘foot’, although the two became homonymous in many modern languages.

Expressions:

Word family

Select a region to see the cognate.

Language	Cognate
Turkmen	No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Turkish (Azerbaijan)	The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Turkish (Türkiye)	The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Salar	No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Gagauz	No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Crimean	No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Uyghur	ayak
Uzbek	oyoq
Kazakh	ayaq
Nogai	ayak
Siberian Tatar	No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Kyrgyz	ayak
Altai	ayak
Alan	ayak
Kumyk	ayaq
Tatar	No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Bashkir	ayaq
Tıva	ayak
Khakas	ayax
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan)	No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Khalaj	No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Chuvash	No cognate has been entered for this language yet.

German:

Kelch, Schale, Trinkgefäß

Russian:

чашка, кубок, миска

Turkish (Azerbaijan):

kasa, piyalə, qədəh

Turkish (Türkiye):

kâse, fincan, kadeh

Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish p. 270

1 ayak ‘a vessel’, particularly a drinking vessel, for individual use; ‘cup, goblet, bowl’. S.i.a.m.l.g. See Doerfer II 629. Türkü viii ff. IrkB 42 (iḏiş): Uyğ. viii ff. Civ. on ayak ‘ten cups’ USp. 55, 26; a.o. do. 40, 7 (1 ür-); bir batır ayak bor bir batır ayak suv ‘one cup (Hend.) of wine and one of water’ H I 16-17 (batır l.-w. fr. Sogdian p’ttr); a.o. H II 20, 80-1: Xak. xi ayak al-qaṣ‘a ‘a (wooden) bowl’; the Oğuz do not know the word and call ‘a bowl’ çanak Kaş. I 84; and 17 o.o.: xiii(?) Tef. ayak ‘cup’ 45: xiv Muh. al-qadaḥ ‘cup’ aya:k Mel. 7, 10; Rif. 79 (confused with 2 ayak); al-qaṣ‘a aya:k 69, 6 (aya:ğ); 170 (yayalı); al-manqal ‘portable brazier’ aya:k 169 (only): Çağ. xv ff. ayağ/ayak qadaḥ Vel. 39; kāsa (‘cup’) wa qadaḥ San. 57r. 2 (quotns.): Xwar. xiv ayak (and, by false analogy, aḏak) ‘cup, goblet’ Qutb 6: Kıp. xv sukurca ‘bowl’ ayak Tuh. 19b. 6; şabītar (meaning unknown, ?corrupt) ayak do. 20b. 11: Osm. xiv to xvi aya:ğ/ayak ‘bowl, cup’; common TTS I 54; II 70; III 48.