آغرشاق

Ottoman Turkish

آغرشاق

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *aġïrsuk, probably from *iagïr (“heavy”), whence آغر (ağır, “heavy”).

Noun

آغرشاق • (ağırşak)

1. (in general) disk, any kind of thin, flat, circular plate or similar object
2. weight plate, usually attached to tools in order to lower their barycenter

Derived terms

• آغرشاقلنمق (ağırşaklanmak, “to become round”)
• ابیك آغرشاغی (ibik ağırşağı, “fly of a spindle, whorl”)
• دیز آغرشاغی (diz ağırşağı, “kneecap”)
• طوݣوز آغرشاغی (doñuz ağırşağı, “cyclamen”)
• چادر آغرشاغی (çadır ağırşağı, “cap of a tent pole”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: ağırşak
• → Armenian: աղըրշախ (aġəršax)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ağırşak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 138
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اغرشق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 49b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آغرشاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 23
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Verticillum”, 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 1743
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اغرشق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 301
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ağırşak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آغرشاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 149