اوفكه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *öpke (“lung, anger”); cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (öpkä), Kazakh өкпе (ökpe), Kyrgyz өпкө (öpkö), Azerbaijani öfgə, Uyghur ئۆپكە (öpke) and Tuvan өкпе (ökpe). Doublet of اویكن (öyken, “lung”).

Noun

اوفكه • (ufke, öfke)

1. huff, pet, grunt, an expression of anger
2. anger, rage, fury, wrath

Related terms

• اویكن (öyken)

Descendants

• Turkish: öfke

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوفكه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 193
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ira”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 869
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “öfke”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوفكه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 259