یوكسك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yüksek (“high, elevated”), a development of *yükse- (“to elevate, to grow in height”), from which یوكسلمك (yükselmek, “to rise”).

Adjective

یوكسك • (yüksek)

1. high, tall, physically elevated, extending above a base or average level

   Synonyms: بلند (bülend), عالی (ʿali), یوجه (yüce)

Derived terms

• یوكسك قوپمق (yüksek kopmak, “to fall from a great height”)
• یوكسكدن اوچمق (yüksekden uçmak, “to fly at a great height”)
• یوكسكلك (yükseklik, “elevation”)

Related terms

• یوكسلتمك (yükseltmek, “to raise”)
• یوكسلمك (yükselmek, “to rise”)

Descendants

• Turkish: yüksek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yüksek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5399
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یوكسك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 514a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یوكسك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1366
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Altus”, 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 53
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یوكسك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5629
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yüksek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یوكسك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2217

Etymology 2

Noun

یوكسك • (yüksük)

1. Alternative spelling of یوكسوك (yüksük, “thimble”)

Further reading

• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یوكسك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[6], Vienna: F. Beck, page 514a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یوكسك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[7], Vienna, column 5629