اشیك

Ottoman Turkish

اشیك

Alternative forms

• اشك (eşik)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ēĺük (“door”); cognate with Azerbaijani eşik, Bashkir ишек (işek), Chuvash алӑк (alăk), Kazakh есік (esık), Kyrgyz эшик (eşik), Turkmen eşik, Uyghur ئىشىك (ishik) and Uzbek eshik.

Noun

اشیك • (eşik)

1. threshold, doorsill, doorstep, the lowermost part of a doorway

   Synonyms: آستانه (astane), عتبه (ʿatebe)

2. (by extension) threshold, any entrance, end or boundary

Derived terms

• آلت اشیك (alt eşik, “lower lintel of a doorframe”)
• اشیك آغاسی (eşik ağası, “lord chamberlain”)
• اوست اشیك (üst eşik, “upper lintel of a doorframe”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: eşik
• → Armenian: էշիկ (ēšik)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “eşik1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1499
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اشك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 41b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اشیك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 99
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Limen”, 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 953
• 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^[4], Vienna, column 241
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “eşik”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اشیك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 125