اوزون اشك

Ottoman Turkish

اوزون اشك

Etymology

From اوزون (uzun, “long; tall”) + اشك (eşek, “donkey, ass”).

Noun

اوزون اشك • (uzun eşek)

1. leapfrog, a game in which a player leaps like a frog over the back of another person who has stooped over

Descendants

• Turkish: uzuneşek

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “اوزون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 165
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “uzuneşek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5023
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوزون اشك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 252