آق

See also: أق, أف, اڤ, and اف

Ottoman Turkish

آق

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *āk (“white”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰀𐰴 (āq), Azerbaijani ağ, Bashkir аҡ (aq), Kazakh ақ (aq), Kyrgyz ак (ak), Turkmen āk, Uyghur ئاق (aq), Uzbek oq and Yakut ак (ak).

Adjective

آق • (ak)

1. white, bright and colourless, reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light

   Synonyms: بیاض (beyâz), سفید (sefid)

Noun

آق • (ak) (definite accusative آقی (akı), plural آقلر (aklar))

1. white, the color of snow or milk, which contains equal amounts of all visible wavelengths

   Synonym: بیاض (beyâz)

Derived terms

• آق آش (ak aş, “sweet dish of rice flour”)
• آق آصمه (ak asma, “clematis”)
• آق آغا (ak ağa, “white eunuch”)
• آق آغاج (ak ağac, “birch”)
• آق آقچه (ak akçe, “silver coin”)
• آق آلتون (ak altun, “platinum”)
• آق ایلغین (ak ılgın, “white tamarisk”)
• آق بابا (ak baba, “vulture”)
• آق بالق (ak balık, “roach”)
• آق بكك (ak beñek, “albugo, leucoma”)
• آق جكر (ak ciğer, “lung”)
• آق خردل (ak hardal, “white mustard”)
• آق داری (ak darı, “white millet”)
• آق دكز (ak deñiz, “Mediterranean Sea”)
• آق دیكن (ak diken, “hawthorn”)
• آق سرای (ak saray, “Aksaray, a city and province of Turkey”)
• آق سكیر (ak siñir, “sinew, tendon”)
• آق سلمن (ak sülümen, “sublimate”)
• آق سوكوت (ak söğüt, “white willow”)
• آق صقاللو (ak sakallı, “white-bearded”)
• آق صو (ak su, “onyx”)
• آق طوغان (ak doğan, “gyrfalcon”)
• آق قاواق (ak kavak, “white poplar”)
• آق كرمان (ak kerman, “Bilhorod-Dnistrovski, a city in Ukraine”)
• آق كفال (ak kefal, “kind of grey mullet”)
• آق كونلك (ak günlük, “olibanum”)
• آق مانطار (ak mantar, “puffball”)
• آق پاك (ak pak, “white and pure”)
• آقحصار (akhisar, “Akhisar, a town in Manisa province”)
• آقرق (akrak, “whiter”)
• آقلاتمق (aklatmak, “to make or let be whitened”)
• آقلامق (aklamak, “to whiten”)
• آقلق (aklık, “whiteness”)
• آقلو (aklı, “spotted with white”)
• آقچه (akça, akçe, “silver coin”)
• كوز آقی (göz akı, “white of the eye”)
• یومورطه آقی (yumurta akı, “white of the egg”)

Related terms

• آغارمق (ağarmak, “to whiten”)

Descendants

• Turkish: ak

See also

Colors in Ottoman Turkish · بویا بویلر (boyalar) (layout · text)

آق (ak)	بوز (boz)	قره (kara)
قزل (kızıl); آل (al)	ترنجی (türünci); قوڭور (koñur)	صاری (sarı)
	یشیل (yeşil)
	گوك (gök)	ماوی (mavi)
مور (mor)	افلاطون (eflatun)	پنبه (pembe)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 83
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 162
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 53a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 26
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Albus”, 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 46
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 326
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 161