ایشق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• ایشیق (ışık), اشق (ışık)

Etymology

From the Proto-Turkic root *yạĺ(č)- (“to blaze, flame”), the same source of ایشیمق (ışımak, “to shine”) and ایشین (ışın, “flash, gleam, lightning glow”); cognate with Azerbaijani işıq (“light”) and Turkmen yşyk (“light”).

Noun

ایشق • (ışık)

1. light, source of light

   Synonyms: آیدین (aydın), سراج (sirac)

2. window or opening whence light comes
3. wandering dervish, mendicant monk

Descendants

• Turkish: ışık
• → Armenian: ըշըխ (əšəx) — Constantinople

Adjective

ایشق • (ışık)

1. bright, luminous, shining, illuminated

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ışık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2060
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ایشق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 219
• Kreutel, Richard Franz (1965) “ایشق”, in Osmanisch-türkische Chrestomathie (Porta linguarum orientalium: Neue Serie; 7) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 180b
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ışık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایشق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 297