# طرناق
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* درناق (dırnak), طرنق (tırnak)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tïrŋak (“finger-nail, claw”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐱃𐰃𐰺𐰭𐰴 (tïrŋaq), Azerbaijani dırnaq, Bashkir тырнаҡ (tırnaq), Kazakh тырнақ (tyrnaq), Kyrgyz тырмак (tırmak), Turkmen dyrnak, Uyghur تىرناق (tirnaq), Uzbek tirnoq and Yakut тыҥырах (tıñıraq).

### Noun

طرناق • (tırnak) (definite accusative طرناغی (tırnağı), plural طرناقلر (tırnaklar))
* fingernail, toenail, the thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals
    Synonyms: ظفر (zufr), ناخن (nahun)
* claw, talon, unguis, a sharp, hooked nail on each digit of the foot of a bird of prey or other predatory animal
    Synonyms: پنچه (pençe), چنك (çenk), طرمیق (tırmık), قیناق (kıynak)
* hoof, the tip of a toe of an ungulate, such as a horse, strengthened by a thick and horny keratin covering
    Synonym: طویناق (toynak)
* guillemet, chevron, angle quote, either of the punctuation marks « or », used to indicate passages of speech

#### Derived terms

* ابلیس طرناغی (iblis tırnağı, “onycha”)
* ات ایله طرناق (et ile tırnak, “inseparable”)
* تپه‌دن طرناغه (tepeden tırnağa, “from head to toes”)
* دوه طرناغی (deve tırnağı, “anything that does not exist in reality”, literally “camel's hoof”)
* شیطان طرناغی (şeytan tırnağı, “hangnail”)
* طرناق اوتی (tırnak otu, “mouse-ear hawkweed”)
* طرناق اوستنده یورومك (tırnak üstünde yürümek, “to tiptoe”)
* طرناق ایلشدرمك (tırnak ilişdirmek, “to hook a claw into a thing”)
* طرناق باتمق (tırnak batmak, “for a nail or claw, to run into”)
* طرناق بخوری (tırnak buhuru, “onycha”)
* طرناق سوكمك (tırnak sökmek, “to draw a nail with pincers”)
* طرناق طاقمق (tırnak takmak, “to hook a claw into a thing”)
* طرناق كسمك (tırnak kesmek, “to cut the nails”)
* طرناق كسندیسی (tırnak kesindisi, “nail-parings”)
* طرناق پیده‌سی (tırnak pidesi, “a thin, round flatcake”)
* طرناق یاره‌سی (tırnak yarası, “scratch”)
* طرناق یری (tırnak yeri, “weak point”)
* طرناقلامق (tırnaklamak, “to wound with the nails or claws”)
* طرناقلره یاغ چالمق (tırnaklara yağ çalmak, “to wish someone well”)
* طرناقلو (tırnaklı, “provided with nails, claws or hoofs”)
* قاطر طرناغی (katır tırnağı, “common broom”)
* قورت طرناغی (kurt tırnağı, “bistort”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: tırnak
* → Armenian: թըռնախ (tʻəṙnax)

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “طرناق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 286
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tırnak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4815
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طرنق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 312b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طرناق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 804
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Unguis”, 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, Vienna, column 1782
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طرنق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3102
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tırnak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طرناق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1238