اوشاق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *uvšak (“child”), a development of *uvša- (“to become smaller”); compare Old Turkic [script needed] (uvšak/ušak, “small”).

Noun

اوشاق • (uşak)

1. boy, lad, youth, a young male

   Synonyms: اوغلان (oğlan), پسر (pıser), غلام (ğulam)

2. manservant, servingman, a male servant

   Synonyms: خدمتجی (hizmetci), خدمتكار (hizmetkâr)

3. apprentice, a trainee in a skilled trade

   Synonyms: چراق (çırak), شاگرد (şagird)

Derived terms

• آت اوشاغی (at uşağı, “groom”)
• او اوشاقلری (ev uşakları, “members of a household”)
• اوشاق قاپان (uşak kapan, “Nubian vulture”)
• اوشاقلق (uşaklık, “profession of a manservant”)
• چادر اوشاغی (çadır uşağı, “tent-pitcher”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: uşak
• → Armenian: ուշախ (ušax)
• → Ubykh: ушақ (uŝak)

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “uşak4”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5001
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اوشاق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 81a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوشاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 189
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Puerulus”, 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 1401
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوشاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 517
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “uşak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوشاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 254

Etymology 2

اوشاق

Borrowed from Arabic أُشَّق (ʔuššaq, “gum ammoniac”), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (wšʾk /⁠wašak⁠/), [Book Pahlavi needed] (wšk /⁠wašak⁠/).

Alternative forms

• وشق (vuşak)

Noun

اوشاق • (uşak)

1. gum ammoniac, ammoniacum, a resin exuded from several plants of the genus Ferula

Derived terms

• اوشاق فدانی (uşak fidanı, “Ferula ammoniacum”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: uşak

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “uşak5”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5001
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوشاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 254