اورمجك

Ottoman Turkish

اورمجك

Alternative forms

• اورومجك (örümcek)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ȫrmekči (“spider”), a developing of *ȫr- (“to spin”); cognate with Azerbaijani hörümçək, Bashkir үрмәксе (ürməkse), Kazakh өрмекші (örmekşı), Kyrgyz жөргөмүш (jörgömüş), Tatar үрмәкүч (ürmäküç), Uyghur ئۆمۈچۈك (ömüchük) and Uzbek oʻrgimchak.

Noun

اورمجك • (örümcek)

1. spider, any of various arthropods of the order Araneae

   Synonym: عنكبوت ('ankebut)

Derived terms

• اورمجك آغی (örümcek ağı, “spiderweb”)
• اورمجك قوشی (örümcek kuşu, “shrike”)
• اورمجكلندرمك (örümceklendirmek, “to make a thing become cobwebby”)
• اورمجكلنمك (örümceklenmek, “to become cobwebby”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: örümcek, örümce, görümce, erimcak (dialectal)
  • → Armenian: էրնջակ (ērnǰak), էրունջէկ (ērunǰēk)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “örümcek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3717
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اورمجك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 184
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Araneus”, 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 77
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اورمجك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 503
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “örümcek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اورمجك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 246