اوجوز
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ūčuŕ (“cheap”), from *ōču- (“to get smaller”); cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (učuz), Azerbaijani ucuz, Bashkir осһоҙ (oshoź), Karakhanid اُجُزْ (učuz), Tatar очсыз (oçsız) and Turkmen ujyz.
Adjective
[edit]اوجوز • (ucuz)
- cheap, of low and/or reduced price
- 1926 March 18, advertisement in Hakimiyet-i Milliye, page 6:
- برقاچ کون ایچنده شهرمزه كلهجك و بوصورتله هم ایی جنسدن هم ده اوجوز اولهرق هركس ایستدیكی قدر آلهبتلهجكدر.
- Birkaç gün içinde sehirmize gelecek ve bu suretle hem iyi cinsden hem de ucuz olarak herkes istediği kadar alabilecektir.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Antonym: بهالو (bahalı)
- 1926 March 18, advertisement in Hakimiyet-i Milliye, page 6:
Derived terms
[edit]- اوجوز صاتمق (ucuz satmak, “to sell cheaply”)
- اوجوزاتمق (ucuzatmak, “to decry a thing”)
- اوجوزجی (ucuzcu, “man who seeks cheap bargains”)
- اوجوزسنمق (ucuzsunmak, “to find cheap”)
- اوجوزلاتمق (ucuzlatmak, “to make a thing cheap”)
- اوجوزلامق (ucuzlamak, “to become cheap”)
- اوجوزلق (ucuzluk, “cheapness”)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: ucuz
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ucuz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4959
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اوجوز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 76b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوجوز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 176
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vilis”, 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 1760
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوجوز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 492
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ucuz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوجوز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 239