اشك

See also: اشک and أشك

Arabic

Verb

اُشْكُ • (ušku) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of شَكَا (šakā)

Ottoman Turkish

اشك

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *eĺčgek (“donkey”); cognate with Azerbaijani eşşək, Bashkir ишәк (işək), Chuvash ашак (aš̬ak), Kazakh есек (esek), Kyrgyz эшек (eşek), Tatar ишәк (işäk), Turkmen eşek, Uyghur ئىشەق (isheq) and Uzbek eshak.

Noun

اشك • (eşek)

1. donkey, ass (Equus asinus)

   Synonyms: حمار (himar), خر (har), مركب (merkeb)

2. (figuratively) silly, stupid, perverse man

Derived terms

• اشك آریسی (eşek arısı, “hornet”)
• اشك بالغی (eşek balığı, “stockfish”)
• اشك دیكنی (eşek dikeni, “cotton thistle”)
• اشك سولوكی (eşek sülüğü, “horse-leech”)
• اشك سینكی (eşek sineği, “gadfly”)
• اشكجی (eşekci, “donkey-driver”)
• سینكی قولاغی (eşek kulağı, “centaury”)
• یابان اشكی (yaban eşeği, “onager”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: eşek
• Gagauz: yeşek
• → Armenian: էշեկ (ēšek)
• → Bulgarian: ешѐк (ešèk)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ѐшек

  Latin script: èšek

• →? Sicilian: sceccu

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian اشک (ašk).

Noun

اشك • (eşk)

1. tear, eyewater

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “eşek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1496
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اشك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 98
• Kreutel, Richard Franz (1965) “اشك”, in Osmanisch-türkische Chrestomathie (Porta linguarum orientalium: Neue Serie; 7) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 180b
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Asinus”, 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 90
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اشك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 241
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “eşek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اشك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 122