اوجاق

Khalaj

Noun

اوْجاق (ocaq) (definite accusative اوْجاقؽ, plural اوْجاقلار)

1. Arabic spelling of ocaq (“hearth, fireplace”)

Declension

Declension of اوجاق

	singular	plural
nominative	اوجاق	اوجاقلار
genitive	اوجاقؽݧ	اوجاقلارؽݧ
dative	اوجاققا	اوجاقلارقا
definite accusative	اوجاقؽ	اوجاقلارؽ
locative	اوجاقچا	اوجاقلارچا
ablative	اوجاقدا	اوجاقلاردا
instrumental	اوجاقلا	اوجاقلارلا
equative	اوجاقوارا	اوجاقلاروارا

Ottoman Turkish

اوجاق

Alternative forms

• օճագ (ocak) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ōtčak (“hearth”); cognate with Azerbaijani ocaq, Bashkir уҫаҡ (uśaq), Chuvash вучах (vuč̬ah), Kazakh ошақ (oşaq), Kyrgyz очок (ocok), Southern Altai очок (očok), Tatar учак (uçaq) and Uzbek oʻchoq, while Russian оча́г (očág) is borrowed from Turkic.

Noun

اوجاق • (ocak) (definite accusative اوجاغی (ocağı), plural اوجاقلر (ocaklar))

1. fireplace, an open hearth for holding a fire at the base of a chimney

   Synonyms: آتشدان (ateşdan), تنور (tennur), كانون (kanun), موقد (“mevkid”)

2. (in general) any place for lighting fire, such as a hearth, furnace or kiln
3. chimney, flue, a vertical tube or hollow column used to emit smoke

   Synonym: باجه (baca)

4. quarry, pit, delf, a site for mining stone, limestone, marble, or slate
5. (figuratively) lineage, the discending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage
6. (formerly) the corps of janissaries or any regiment thereof
7. (more recently) any body politic, such as a guild, fraternity or corporation
8. (nautical) the cook's galley on board a ship

Derived terms

• اوجاغنه انجیر دیكمك (ocağına incir dikmek, “to destroy a family”)
• اوجاغنه دوشمك (ocağına düşmek, “to crave protection”)
• اوجاق امام (ocak imâm, “chaplain of the corps of the janissaries”)
• اوجاق خلقی (ocak halkı, “members of a corps of the janissaries”)
• اوجاق سوكندرمك (ocak söğündürmek, “to extinguish the fire on a hearth”)
• اوجاق سوكنمك (ocak söğünmek, “for the fire of an earth, to go out”)
• اوجاق قورمق (ocak kurmak, “to establish a colony”)
• اوجاق چكركه‌سی (ocak cekirgesi, “house cricket”)
• اوجاقجی (ocakcı, “chimney-sweep”)
• اوجاقلق (ocaklık, “place where a hearth is set up”)
• اوجاقلو (ocaklı, “having a fireplace”)
• بادلجان اوجاغی (badlıcan ocağı, “stuffed eggplant”)
• خیار اوجاغی (hıyar ocağı, “entrance of a sewer”)
• طاش اوجاغی (taş ocağı, “stone quarry”)
• عسكر اوجاقلری (ʼasker ocakları, “military colonies”)
• كیرج اوجاغی (kirec ocağı, “lime quarry”)
• مرمر اوجاغی (mermer ocağı, “marble quarry”)
• مغرب اوجاقلری (mağrib ocakları, “the three regencies of Maghreb”)
• یكیچری اوجاغی (yeñiçeri ocağı, “a regiment of janissaries”)

Related terms

• اوتاق (otak, “great tent”)
• اود (od, “fire”)
• اوطون (odun, “firewood”)

Descendants

• Turkish: ocak
• → Abkhaz: ауаџьаҟ (awadžaqʼ)
• → Albanian: oxhak
• → Armenian: օջախ (ōǰax)
• → Aromanian: ugeac
• → Bulgarian: оджак (odžak)
• → Byzantine Greek: ὀτζάκι (otzáki)
  • Greek: τζάκι (tzáki)
• → Georgian: ოჯახი (oǯaxi)
• → Macedonian: о́џак (ódžak)
• → Persian: اجاق (ojâq)
• → Romanian: ogeac, hogeag
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: о̀џак

  Latin script: òdžak

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “اوجاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 140
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ocak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3581
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اوجاق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 76a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوجاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 175
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Focus”, 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 593
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوجاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 490
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ocak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوجاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 238