باشاق

Old Anatolian Turkish

Alternative forms

• بَشَاقْ (başaq)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *baĺak.

Noun

بَاشَاقْ (başaq)

1. head of a sharp weapon such as a spear, spade, and especially of an arrow
2. ear of a grain

Related terms

• بَاشْ

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: başaq
• Gagauz: başak
• Ottoman Turkish: باشاق (başak)
  • Turkish: başak
  • → Armenian: բաշաղ (bašaġ), բաշախ (bašax), պաշաղ (pašaġ), պաշախ (pašax)

Further reading

• Boeschoten, Hendrik (2022) “bašaq”, in A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.169), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 75

Ottoman Turkish

باشاقلر

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish بَاشَاقْ (başaq), from Proto-Turkic *baĺak; equivalent to باش (baş, “head”) +‎ ـاق (-ak, noun and adjective diminutive suffix). Cognate with Azerbaijani başaq, Bashkir башаҡ (başaq), Kazakh масақ (masaq), Southern Altai мажак (mažak) and Uzbek bоshоq.

Noun

باشاق • (başak)

1. head of a sharp weapon such as a spear, spade, and especially of an arrow
2. (botany) ear, spike, head, the fruiting body of a grain plant

   Synonyms: خوشه (huşe), سنبله (sunbule)

3. (in harvesting) fallen or left behind ear of corn in a field
4. small, straggling bunch of grapes or dates left on the tree after the fruit is gathered

Derived terms

• باشاق باغلامق (başak bağlamak, “to come into ear”)
• باشاق طوتمق (başak tutmak, “to come into ear”)
• باشاقجی (başakcı, “gleaner”)
• باشاقسز (başaksız, “earless, spikeless”)
• باشاقلانمق (başaklanmak, “to come into ear, to ear”)
• باشاقلو (başaklı, “eared; with gleanings left”)
• قره باشاق (kara başak, “rye”)

Descendants

• Turkish: başak
• → Armenian: բաշաղ (bašaġ), բաշախ (bašax), պաշաղ (pašaġ), պաշախ (pašax)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “başak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 493
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “باشاق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 102b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باشاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 239
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Spica”, 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 1583
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “باشاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 663–664
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “başak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باشاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 325

Uyghur

Etymology

Inherited from Chagatai باشاق (bašaq), from Karakhanid بَشَقْ (bašaq), from Proto-Turkic *baĺak, derived from *baĺč (“head”). Cognates with Turkish başak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑʃɑq/

Noun

باشاق • (bashaq) (plural باشاقلار (bashaqlar))

1. grain ear, spike

Further reading

• Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN