آرپه‌جق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From آرپه (arpa, “barley”) +‎ ـجق (-cık, diminutive suffix).

Noun

آرپه‌جق • (arpacık)

1. diminutive of آرپه
2. stye (eyelid inflammation)
3. sight (aiming device on a gun barrel)

Descendants

• Turkish: arpacık
• → Armenian: արփաճըխ (arpʻačəx)
• → Bulgarian: арпаджик (arpadžik)
• → Romanian: arpagic
• → Serbo-Croatian: arpadžik

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آرپه‌جق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 60
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آرپه‌جق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 388