اوجاق

Khalaj

Noun

اوْجاق (ocaq) (definite accusative اوْجاقؽ, plural اوْجاقلار)

1. Arabic spelling of ocaq (“hearth, fireplace”)

Declension

Declension of اوجاق

	singular	plural
nominative	اوجاق	اوجاقلار
genitive	اوجاقؽݧ	اوجاقلارؽݧ
dative	اوجاققا	اوجاقلارقا
definite accusative	اوجاقؽ	اوجاقلارؽ
locative	اوجاقچا	اوجاقلارچا
ablative	اوجاقدا	اوجاقلاردا
instrumental	اوجاقلا	اوجاقلارلا
equative	اوجاقوارا	اوجاقلاروارا

Ottoman Turkish

اوجاق

Alternative forms

• օճագ (ocak) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ōtčak (“hearth”), from *ōt (“fire”), whence also Ottoman Turkish اود (od, “fire”); cognate with Azerbaijani ocaq, Bashkir уҫаҡ (uśaq), Chuvash вучах (vuč̬ah), Kazakh ошақ (oşaq), Kyrgyz очок (ocok), Southern Altai очок (očok), Tatar учак (uçaq) and Uzbek o'choq, while Russian оча́г (očág) is borrowed from Turkic.

Noun

اوجاق • (ocak) (definite accusative اوجاغی (ocağı), plural اوجاقلر (ocaklar))

1. fireplace, an open hearth for holding a fire at the base of a chimney

   Synonyms: آتشدان (ateşdan), تنور (tennur), كانون (kanun), موقد (“mevkid”)

2. (in general) any place for lighting fire, such as a hearth, furnace or kiln
3. chimney, flue, a vertical tube or hollow column used to emit smoke

   Synonym: باجه (baca)

4. (figuratively) lineage, the discending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage
5. (formerly) the corps of janissaries or any regiment thereof
6. (more recently) any body politic, such as a guild, fraternity or corporation
7. (nautical) the cook's galley on board a ship

Derived terms

• اوجاق چكركهسی (ocak cekirgesi, “house cricket”)
• اوجاقجی (ocakcı, “chimney-sweep”)
• اوجاقلق (ocaklık, “place where a hearth is set up”)
• اوجاقلو (ocaklı, “having a fireplace”)
• طاش اوجاغی (taş ocağı, “stone quarry”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: ocak
• → Abkhaz: ауаџьаҟ (awadžaqʼ)
• → Albanian: oxhak
• → Armenian: օջախ (ōǰax)
• → Aromanian: ugeac
• → Bulgarian: оджак (odžak)
• → Byzantine Greek: ὀτζάκι (otzáki)
  • Greek: τζάκι (tzáki)
• → Georgian: ოჯახი (oǯaxi)
• → Macedonian: о́џак (ódžak)
• → Persian: اجاق (ojâq)
• → Romanian: ogeac, hogeag
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: о̀џак

  Latin script: òdžak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ocak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3581
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوجاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 175
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Focus”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 593
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوجاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 490
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ocak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوجاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 238