آشاغی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• آشاغه (aşağa), آشغه (aşağa), آشغی (aşağı)

Etymology

From the earlier form آشاغه (aşağa), dative form of the unattested noun *آشاق (aşak, “bottom of the mountain”), which is found in Karakhanid اَشَقْ (aşaq). This word ultimately derives from Proto-Turkic *āš- (“to cross a mountain, to surpass”), the same root of آشمق (aşmak, “to surpass”) and آشیری (aşırı, “extreme, immoderate”).

Adverb

آشاغی • (aşağı)

1. down, downwards, towards a lowerer position, closer to the ground than the sky

   Antonym: یوقاری (yukarı)

2. downstairs, down the stairs, on a lower floor, level, or storey of a building

   Antonym: یوقاری (yukarı)

3. below, beneath, underneath, physically under, or at the bottom of something

   Antonym: یوقاری (yukarı)

Adjective

آشاغی • (aşağı)

1. lower, inferior, underlying, situated on a lower ground, level, rank, or position

   Antonyms: اوست (üst), یوقاری (yukarı)

Noun

آشاغی • (aşağı) (definite accusative آشاغیی (aşağıyı), plural آشاغیلر (aşağılar))

1. bottom, base, the lowest part of anything, opposed to the top or summit

   Synonyms: آلت (alt), دیب (dib)

Derived terms

• آشاغی آلپ (aşağı alp, “Basses-Alpes”)
• آشاغی اوتورمق (aşağı oturmak, “to sit down in a lower place”)
• آشاغی قات (aşağı kat, “lower storey”)
• آشاغی پیرنه (aşağı pirene, “Basses-Pyrénées”)
• آشاغی یوقاری (aşağı yukarı, “up and down”)
• آشاغیجه (aşağıca, “somewhat low down”)
• آشاغیلاتمق (aşağılatmak, “to lower, reduce”)
• آشاغیلامق (aşağılamak, “to belittle, humiliate, degrade”)
• آشاغیلانمق (aşağılanmak, “to become low”)
• آشاغیلو (aşağılı, “possessed of lower parts”)
• باش آشاغی (baş aşağı, “headlong, headforemost”)
• یوقوش آشاغی (yokuş aşağı, “downhill, downslope”)

Descendants

• Turkish: aşağı
• → Crimean Tatar: aşağı

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آشاغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 60
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “aşağı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 328
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آشاغه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 39b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آشاغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 19
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Inferius”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 795
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آشاغی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 229
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “aşağı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آشاغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 117