اگه

Ottoman Turkish

اگه

Alternative forms

• ایگه (eyğe)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ẹ̄ke- (“file”); cognate with Azerbaijani əyə, Bashkir игәү (igəw), Kazakh егеу (egeu), Kyrgyz өгөө (ögöö), Southern Altai эгӱ (egü), Turkmen ige, Uyghur ئېكەك (ëkek) and Uzbek egov.

Noun

اگه • (eğe)

1. rasp, file, a hand tool used for removing sharp edges or for cutting

   Synonyms: تورپو (törpü), راسپه (raspa), سوهان (suhan), مبرد (mibred)

Derived terms

• اگه‌جی (eğeci, “maker or seller of files”)
• اگه‌لتمك (eğeletmek, “to make or let be filed”)
• اگه‌لمك (eğelemek, “to file”)
• اگه‌لنمك (eğelenmek, “to be filed”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: eğe
• → Armenian: էյէ (ēyē) — Constantinople

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “eğe1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1376
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اگه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 58b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اگه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 130
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lima”, 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 952
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اگه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 361
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “eğe”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اگه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 177

Persian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈæɡʲe]

Conjunction

اگه • (age)

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of اگر