اوق

Ottoman Turkish

اوقلر

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ok (“arrow”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰸 (ok), Azerbaijani ox, Bashkir уҡ (uq), Chuvash ухӑ (uh̬ă), Kazakh оқ (oq), Kyrgyz: ок (ok), Turkmen ok, Uyghur ئوق (oq) and Uzbek oʻq.

Noun

اوق • (ok)

1. arrow, dart, a projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail that is shot from a bow

   Synonyms: تیر (tir), سهم (sehm)

2. any stick, beam or pole, when used as an adjunct to, and at right angles with some larger thing
3. quill, a sharply pointed, barbed needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine

Derived terms

• آتش اوقی (ateş oku, “fire arrow”)
• اوق آتمق (ok atmak, “to shoot arrows”)
• اوق آتمی (ok atımı, “bowshot distance”)
• اوق ییلانی (ok yılanı, “oriental ratsnake”)
• اوقجی (okcu, “maker or seller of arrows”)
• اوقلتمق (oklatmak, “to let be shot with arrows”)
• اوقلق (okluk, “quiver”)
• اوقلمق (oklamak, “to shoot with an arrow”)
• اوقلو (oklu, “furnished with arrows or quills”)
• زهرلی اوق (zehirli ok, “poisoned arrow”)
• صبان اوقی (saban oku, “beam of a plough”)
• كمان اوقی (keman oku, “bow of a violin”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: ok
• → Armenian: օխ (ōx)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ok1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3595
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اوق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 83a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 194a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sagitta”, 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 1501
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 525
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ok”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 259