شاشی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Related to شاشمق (şaşmak). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (sašï, “confused, bewildered”), Kipchak [script needed] (šašï, “squint-eyed”),[1] etc.
Adjective
شاشی • (şaşı)
- squinting, squint-eyed
- Synonym: حولا (havla)
Derived terms
- شاشیلق (şaşılık)
Descendants
- Turkish: şaşı
- → Armenian: շաշ (šaš), շաշի (šaši)
Further reading
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “شاشی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1109
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “şaşı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük