اوق
Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]اوق • (ok)
- arrow, dart, a projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail that is shot from a bow
- any stick, beam or pole, when used as an adjunct to, and at right angles with some larger thing
- quill, a sharply pointed, barbed needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine
Derived terms
[edit]- 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
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- 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