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Proto-Turkic: *K(i)amak / *K(i)apak
Altaic etymology: Altaic etymology
Meaning: 1 forehead 2 front part 3 eyelid 4 eyebrow
Russian meaning: 1 лоб 2 передняя часть 3 веко 4 бровь
Karakhanid: qapaq 3 (MK)
Turkish: kabak 'bald', dial. kabag 1, 2, 'face', 'skull'
Tatar: küz qabaɣɨ 3, dial. taw qabaɣɨ 'mountain slope'
Middle Turkic: qabaq 1, 2 (Sangl., Бор. Бад.)
Uzbek: qɔvɔq 3
Uighur: dial. qawaq 3
Sary-Yughur: qavaq 'nose bridge' (ЯЖУ)
Azerbaidzhan: GabaG 2, (poet.) 'face'
Turkmen: GābaG 3
Khakassian: xamax 1
Shor: qamaq, qabaq 1
Oyrat: qamaq, qabaq 4, dial. 1
Tuva: xavaq 1
Tofalar: qabaq 4
Kirghiz: qabaq 3, 'pitfall'
Kazakh: qabaq 3, 'place under the forehead; edge of shore'
Noghai: qabaq 3
Bashkir: qabaq 3, 'precipice'
Karakalpak: qabaq 3, 'cleft'
Kumyk: göz qabaɣɨ 3
Comments: VEWT 228, ЭСТЯ 5, 161, Лексика 199-200. An extremely complicated case: forms meaning 'eyelid' are traditionally analysed as derived from *Kap- 'to cover' - but the Turkm., Uzb. and Uygh. forms clearly contradict such a derivation by displaying unmistakable vowel length. A trace of the original meaning 'forehead, eyebrow' (later shifted to 'eyelid') in the Kypchak languages (not distinguishing vowel length) may be found in expressions meaning 'to frown (one's forehead, eyebrows)': Kirgh. qabaq tüj-, bürkö-, Kaz., KKalp. qabaq tüj-. The form *Kāpak may have been additionally influenced by PT *Kāp 'sack; to surround' (v. sub *k[ā]p`á), *Kāp(ak) 'caul, hymen' (v. sub *k`āp`á). The variation of *-m- and -p- (cf. the archaic Siberian reflexes with -m-) is parallelled by a similar variation in TM and Japanese and may reflect an original cluster, but may have been an innovation due to the contaminations with *Kap- and *Kāp.
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