اوق

Ottoman Turkish

اوقلر

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ok (“arrow”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰸‎ (ok), Azerbaijani ox, Bashkir уҡ (uq), Chuvash ухӑ (uh̬ă), Kazakh оқ (oq), Kyrgyz: ок (ok), Turkmen ok, Uyghur ئوق‎ (oq) and Uzbek oʻq.

Noun

اوق • (ok)

1. arrow, dart, a projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail that is shot from a bow

   Synonyms: تیر‎ (tir), سهم‎ (sehm)

2. any stick, beam or pole, when used as an adjunct to, and at right angles with some larger thing
3. quill, a sharply pointed, barbed needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine

Derived terms

• آتش اوقی‎ (ateş oku, “fire arrow”)
• اوق آتمق‎ (ok atmak, “to shoot arrows”)
• اوق آتمی‎ (ok atımı, “bowshot distance”)
• اوق ییلانی‎ (ok yılanı, “oriental ratsnake”)
• اوقجی‎ (okcu, “maker or seller of arrows”)
• اوقلتمق‎ (oklatmak, “to let be shot with arrows”)
• اوقلق‎ (okluk, “quiver”)
• اوقلمق‎ (oklamak, “to shoot with an arrow”)
• اوقلو‎ (oklu, “furnished with arrows or quills”)
• زهرلی اوق‎ (zehirli ok, “poisoned arrow”)
• صبان اوقی‎ (saban oku, “beam of a plough”)
• كمان اوقی‎ (keman oku, “bow of a violin”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: ok
• → Armenian: օխ (ōx)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “ok1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3595
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “اوق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 194a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Sagitta”, 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, Vienna, column 1501
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “اوق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 525
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “ok”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “اوق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 259