یاصدق

Ottoman Turkish

یاصدق

Alternative forms

• یاصدیق (yasdık)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yạŕtuk (“pillow”); cognate with Azerbaijani yastıq, Bashkir яҫтыҡ (yaśtıq), Chuvash ҫытар (śyt̬ar), Kazakh жастық (jastyq), Kyrgyz жаздык (jazdık), Turkmen ýassyk, Uyghur ياستۇق (yastuq), Uzbek yostiq and Yakut сыттык (sıttık).

Noun

یاصدق • (yasdık)

1. bolster, pillow, a soft cushion used to support the head in bed

   Synonym: بالش (baliş)

2. pad, cushion, a flattened mass of anything soft used to sit or lie on
3. fender, any cushion-like object placed along the sides of a boat to prevent damage
4. (agriculture) seedbed, ground prepared for the planting of seeds

Derived terms

• طوپ یاصدق (top yasdık, “bed that supports a cannon”)
• یاصدق طوپراغی (yasdık toprağı, “fine earth for a seedbed”)
• یاصدق غلفی (yasdık gılıfı, “pillowcase”)
• یاصدقلو (yasdıklı, “furnished with pillows”)
• ییلان یاصدغی (yılan yasdığı, “dragonwort”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: yastık
• → Albanian: jastëk
• → Bulgarian: ястъ́к (jastǎ́k)
• → Macedonian: јастук (jastuk)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ја̀стук

  Latin script: jàstuk

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yastık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5237
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یاصدق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 501b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یاصدیق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1340
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pulvinar”, 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 1406
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یاصدق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5545
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yastık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاصدق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2186