قاشاغی
Ottoman Turkish
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kạĺčïgu (“currycomb, scraper”), from *kạĺčï- (“to scratch, scrape, curry”), the same root of قاشیمق (kaşımak, “to scratch, scrape”); cognate with Azerbaijani qaşov.
Noun
[edit]قاشاغی • (kaşağı)
- scraper, an instrument with which anything is scraped
- currycomb, a comb or brush used to groom horses
- Synonym: فرجول (fircevl)
Derived terms
[edit]- آت قاشاغیسی (at kaşağısı, “currycomb”)
- صرت قاشاغیسی (sırt kaşağısı, “tool used to scratch the back”)
- غوغا قاشاغیسی (ğavğa kaşağısı, “frivolous pretext for a quarrel”)
- قاشاغیلامق (kaşağılamak, “to scratch with an instrument, to curry”)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaşağı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2462
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قاشاغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 928
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Strigilis”, 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 1604
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قاشاغو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 3584
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kaşağı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قاشاغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1417