Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قبارق (ḳabarıḳ, “blistered, swollen, abraded, a blister, pimple, swelling”), from قبارمق (ḳabarmaḳ, “to swell or puff up, to blister”), from Proto-Turkic *kāp- (“to swell, to form blisters”), possibly with the suffix Proto-Turkic *-gar, morphologically kabar- + -ık.