آشیق
Ottoman Turkish
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Alternative forms
[edit]- آشق (aşık)
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ašuk (“anklebone”); cognate with Azerbaijani aşıq, Crimean Tatar aşıq, Southern Altai ажык (ažïk), Tatar ашык (aşıq), Uyghur ئوشۇق (oshuq) and Uzbek oshiq.
Noun
[edit]آشیق • (aşık)
- anklebone, talus, astragalus, the bone of the ankle, forming the lower part of the joint
- Synonym: طوپوق (topuk)
- dib, one of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep used by children in play
Derived terms
[edit]- آشیق آتمق (aşık atmak, “to throw the bones as dice”)
- آشیق اوینامق (aşık oynamak, “to play at bones or dibs”)
- آشیق اویونی (aşık oyunu, “the game of dibs”)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: aşık
- → Albanian: ashik
- → Armenian: աշըխ (ašəx), աշուղ (ašuġ)
- → Bulgarian: аши́к (ašík)
- → Macedonian: ашик (ašik)
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “aşık3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 331
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آشیق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 43a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آشیق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 20
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Poples”, 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 1317
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آشیق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 251
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “aşık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آشیق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 125