اوكسز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ȫgsiŕ (“orphan”); equivalent to اوك (ök, “breast, chest, bosom”) +‎ ـسز (-sız, -süz, “-less”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰇𐰏𐰾𐰃𐰔 (ügs²iz /⁠ögsiz⁠/), Azerbaijani öksüz, Bashkir үкһеҙ (ükheź), Kazakh әкесіз (äkesız), Kyrgyz өксүз (öksüz), Tatar үксез (üksez) and Tuvan өскүс (ösküs).

Noun

اوكسز • (öksüz)

1. orphan, a person, especially a minor, whose parents have died

   Synonym: یتیم (yetim)

Derived terms

• اوكسز اناسی (öksüz anası, “a charitable woman”)
• اوكسز اورغانی (öksüz urganı, “bindweed”)
• اوكسز باباسی (öksüz babası, “a charitable man”)
• اوكسز صوغانی (öksüz soğanı, “Egyptian theriac”)
• اوكسز مالی (öksüz malı, “property belonging to orphans”)
• اوكسز چیگدمی (öksüz çiğdemi, “a species of orchis”)
• اوكسزجه (öksüzce, “orphan-like”)
• اوكسزلك (öksüzlük, “orphanhood”)

 

Adjective

اوكسز • (öksuz)

1. orphan, orphaned, deprived of parents

   Synonym: یتیم (yetim)

Descendants

• Turkish: öksüz
• → Armenian: էօքսիւզ (ēōkʻsiwz), օքսուզ (ōkʻsuz)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “öksüz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3684
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اوكسز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 84a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوكسز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 197
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Orphanus”, 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 1223
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوكسز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 532
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “öksüz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوكسز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 262