şaki

See also: Appendix:Variations of "saki"

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish شقی (şakı), from Arabic شَقِيّ (šaqiyy, “miserable; villain”). The original sense, miserable, became obsolete before modern Turkish. From the same root as şaka.

Noun

şaki (definite accusative şakiyi, plural şakiler) (archaic)

1. rebel; outlaw
   • 1937 September 13, headline in Cumhuriyet:

     Şaki Seyid Rıza teslim oldu

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. brigand, robber

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شقی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 730
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şaki”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شقی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1130
• Wehr, Hans (1960) “شقو”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN