آشیق

Ottoman Turkish

آشیق

Alternative forms

• آشق (aşık)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ašuk (“anklebone”); cognate with Azerbaijani aşıq, Crimean Tatar aşıq, Southern Altai ажык (ažïk), Tatar ашык (aşıq), Uyghur ئوشۇق (oshuq) and Uzbek oshiq.

Noun

آشیق • (aşık)

1. anklebone, talus, astragalus, the bone of the ankle, forming the lower part of the joint

   Synonym: طوپوق (topuk)

2. dib, one of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep used by children in play

Derived terms

• آشیق آتمق (aşık atmak, “to throw the bones as dice”)
• آشیق اوینامق (aşık oynamak, “to play at bones or dibs”)
• آشیق اویونی (aşık oyunu, “the game of dibs”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: aşık
• → Albanian: ashik
• → Armenian: աշըխ (ašəx)
• → Bulgarian: аши́к (ašík)
• → Macedonian: ашик (ašik)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “aşık3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 331
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آشیق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 43a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آشیق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 20
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Poples”, 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 1317
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آشیق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 251
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “aşık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آشیق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 125