اوجوز

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• اوجز (ucuz), اجوز (ucuz)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ūčuŕ (“cheap”), from *ōču- (“to get smaller”); cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (učuz), Azerbaijani ucuz, Bashkir осһоҙ (oshoź), Karakhanid اُجُزْ (učuz), Tatar очсыз (oçsız) and Turkmen ujyz.

Adjective

اوجوز • (ucuz)

1. cheap, of low and/or reduced price
   • 1926 March 18, advertisement in Hakimiyet-i Milliye, page 6:

     برقاچ کون ایچنده شهرمزه كله‌جك و بوصورتله هم ایی جنسدن هم ده اوجوز اوله‌رق هركس ایستدیكی قدر آله‌بتله‌جكدر.

     Birkaç gün içinde sehirmize gelecek ve bu suretle hem iyi cinsden hem de ucuz olarak herkes istediği kadar alabilecektir.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   Antonym: بهالو (bahalı)

Derived terms

• اوجوز صاتمق (ucuz satmak, “to sell cheaply”)
• اوجوزاتمق (ucuzatmak, “to decry a thing”)
• اوجوزجی (ucuzcu, “man who seeks cheap bargains”)
• اوجوزسنمق (ucuzsunmak, “to find cheap”)
• اوجوزلاتمق (ucuzlatmak, “to make a thing cheap”)
• اوجوزلامق (ucuzlamak, “to become cheap”)
• اوجوزلق (ucuzluk, “cheapness”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: ucuz

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ucuz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4959
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اوجوز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 76b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوجوز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 176
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vilis”, 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 1760
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوجوز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 492
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ucuz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوجوز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 239