Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بوداق (budak, “shoot in a tree; gnarl”), from Old Anatolian Turkish بوداق (budaq), from Proto-Turkic *būtak, a development from *būta- (“to cut branches, prune”).
Cognate with Azerbaijani budaq, Bashkir ботаҡ (botaq), Kazakh бұтақ (būtaq), Kyrgyz бутак (butak), Southern Altai будак (budak), Turkmen pudak and Uzbek butoq