آغ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *āg (“net”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰍 (ǧ /⁠ag⁠/), Uzbek av, Tatar ав (aw), Tatar ав (aw), Kyrgyz уу (uu) and Shor ағ.

Noun

آغ • (ağ)

1. net, a mesh of string, cord or rope

   Synonyms: دام (dam), شبكه (şebeke)

Derived terms

• بالق آغی (balık ağı, “fishing net”)

Descendants

• Turkish: ağ
• → Armenian: աղ (aġ)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آغ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 22
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Rete”, 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 1477
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آغ”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 293–294
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ağ”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آغ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 146