başak

== Gagauz == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish بَشَاقْ (başaq, “arrowhead”), بَاشَاقْ (başaq) from Proto-Turkic *baĺčak, a derivation from Proto-Turkic *baĺč. The sense of "grain ear" is attested since at least 1680. By surface analysis, baş +‎ -ak. Compare Turkish başak, Azerbaijani başak. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bɑˈʃɑk/ Hyphenation: ba‧şak === Noun === başak (definite accusative başaa, plural başaklar) (botany, anatomy) ear or head of a grain plant (weaponry) arrowhead ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === === Further reading === Baskakov, N. A. (1991), “başak”, in İsmail Kaynak, A. Mecit Doğru, transl., Gagauz Türkçesinin Sözlüğü [The Dictionary of Gagauz Turkish] (in Turkish), Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, page 30 N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “башак”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 75 Kopuşçu M. İ., Todorova S. A., Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “başak”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 27 Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “başak”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 15 == Turkish == === Etymology === Inherited from Ottoman Turkish باشاق (başak), itself from Proto-Turkic *bašaq (“ear”). === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: ba‧şak === Noun === başak (definite accusative başağı, plural başaklar) (botany) ear, spike, head, the fruiting body of a grain plant (weaponry) arrowhead, the pointed part of an arrow Synonym: temren (in harvesting) fallen or left behind ear of corn in a field ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “başak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 493 Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “başak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük