Turkish edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اوفاق (ufak, small, diminutive, a small fragment),[1] from Proto-Turkic *ub- (to crush, to mince, to grind)[2] with the suffix -ık.[3] Cognates with Azerbaijani ufaq, Crimean Tatar ufaq, Turkmen ownuk, Uzbek uvoq

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /uˈfak/
  • Hyphenation: u‧fak

Adjective edit

ufak

  1. Not large, not having great dimensions; small, little.
  2. Young, relatively younger.
  3. (figuratively) Insignificant, infinitesimal.

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References edit

  1. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوفاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 258
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ob-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  3. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ufak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading edit

  • ufak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu