اوقه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• وقیه (vakiye)

Etymology

Uncertain, sometimes said to be from Arabic أُوقِيَّة (ʔūqiyya) or وُقِيَّة (wuqiyya) while this is a considerably smaller weight.

Noun

اوقه • (okka)

1. a kilogram
2. an oka, a former Turkish unit of weight, usually a little more than a kilogram

Descendants

• Turkish: okka
• → Albanian: okë
• → Armenian: օխա (ōxa), օխկա (ōxka)
• → Bulgarian: ока́ (oká)
• → French: oque
  • → Italian: oca
    • → English: oka, oke, okka, oke
• → Greek: οκά (oká)
• → Macedonian: ока (oka)
• → Romanian: oca
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: о̀ка

  Latin script: òka

• → Ukrainian: о́ко (óko)

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوقه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 261
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوقیه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 261
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “وقیه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2147