اشكین

See also: أشكين

Ottoman Turkish

اشكین

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ẹĺgin (“trot, amble”), a development of *ẹĺ- (“to walk, to trot, to amble”), whence اشمك (eşmek, “to trot”). Cognate with Karakhanid اَشْكِنْ (eşkin).

Noun

اشكین • (eşkin)

1. amble, canter, a gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop

Adjective

اشكین • (eşkin)

1. ambling, cantering, moving in such a gait

Derived terms

• اشكینجی (eşkinci, “irregular cavalryman”)
• اشكینسز (eşkinsiz, “that cannot amble”)
• اشكینلك (eşkinlik, “the ambling quality”)
• اشكینلی (eşkinli, “ambling”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: eşkin
• → Armenian: էշկին (ēškin), իշգին (išgin)
• → Egyptian Arabic: أشكين (aškīn)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “eşkin1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1502
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اشكین”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 42a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اشكین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 98b
• Littmann, Enno (1954) “Türkisches Sprachgut im Ägyptisch-Arabischen”, in Fritz Meier, editor, Westöstliche Abhandlungen : Rudolf Tschudi zum 70. Geburtstag überreicht von Freunden und Schülern‎^[3], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, page 110
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gradarius”, 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^[4], Vienna, column 661
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اشكین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 243
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “eşkin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اشكین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 123