اسكی

اسكی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *es-(kü) (“old, ancient”).

Adjective

اسكی • (eski)

1. old, ancient

   Synonym: قوجه‎ (koca)

2. veteran, having had long experience
3. inveterate, chronic, radicated
4. second hand, worn

Derived terms

• اسكیتمك‎ (eskitmek, “to become old”)
• اسكیجی‎ (eskici, “secondhand goods seller”)
• اسكیدلمك‎ (eskidilmek, “to be worn out”)
• اسكیلنمك‎ (eskilenmek, “to become old”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: eski

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “eskici”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1485
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “اسكی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 92
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Vetus”, 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, Vienna, column 1749
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “اسكی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 217–218
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “eski”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “اسكی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 112