اشك
See also: اشک and أشك
Arabic
Verb
اُشْكُ • (ušku) (form I)
- second-person masculine singular active imperative of شَكَا (šakā)
Ottoman Turkish
اشك
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *eĺčgek (“donkey”); cognate with Azerbaijani eşşək, Bashkir ишәк (işäk), Chuvash ашак (aš̬ak), Kazakh есек (esek), Kyrgyz эшек (eşek), Tatar ишәк (işäk), Turkmen eşek, Uyghur ئىشەق (isheq) and Uzbek eshak.
Noun
اشك • (eşek)
- donkey, ass (Equus asinus)
- Synonyms: حمار (himar), خر (har), مركب (merkeb)
- (figuratively) silly, stupid, perverse man
Derived terms
- اشك آریسی (eşek arısı, “hornet”)
- اشك بالغی (eşek balığı, “stockfish”)
- اشكجی (eşekci, “donkey-driver”)
- اشك دیكنی (eşek dikeni, “cotton thistle”)
- اشك سینكی (eşek sineği, “gadfly”)
- سینكی قولاغی (eşek kulağı, “centaury”)
- یابان اشكی (yaban eşeği, “onager”)
Descendants
- Turkish: eşek
- Gagauz: yeşek
- → Armenian: էշեկ (ēšek)
- → Bulgarian: ешѐк (ešèk)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ѐшек
- Latin: èšek
- →? Sicilian: sceccu
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “eşek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1496
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “اشك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 98
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Asinus”, 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 90
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “اشك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 241
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “eşek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “اشك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 122