بوجك

Ottoman Turkish

بوجكلر

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bȫgček (“insect”), a diminutive of *bȫg (“camel spider”). Cognate with Azerbaijani böcək, Bashkir бөжәк (böjək), Crimean Tatar böcek, Kazakh бөжек (böjek) and Turkmen möjek.

Noun

بوجك • (böcek)

1. insect, any arthropod in the Insecta class characterized by six legs

   Synonym: حشره (haşere)

2. (colloquial) insect, bug, any small arthropod similar to an insect

   Synonyms: حشره (haşere), هامه (hamme)

3. spiny lobster, rock lobster, any crustacean in the family Palinuridae
4. (formerly) member of the imperial secret police organization, composed of former thieves and pickpockets

Derived terms

• آتش بوجكی (ateş böceği, “firefly”)
• آغستوس بوجكی (ağustos böceği, “cicada”)
• ایپك بوجكی (ipek böceği, “silkworm”)
• بوجك باشی (böcek başı, “chief of the secret police organization”)
• بوجك گبی (böcek gibi, “insect-like”)
• بوجكلنمك (böceklenmek, “to become infested by insects”)
• بوجكلی (böcekli, “full of insects”)
• بوق بوجكی (bok böceği, “dung beetle”)
• تسبیح بوجكی (tesbih böceği, “woodlouse”)
• حمام بوجكی (hamam böceği, “cockroach”)
• سوموكلو بوجك (sümüklü böcek, “snail, slug”)
• قامش بوجكی (kamış böceği, “leaf beetle”)
• قفتان بوجكی (kaftan böceği, “ladybird”)
• مازو بوجكی (mazı böceği, “gall wasp”)
• مایس بوجكی (mayıs böceği, “cockchafer”)
• پاپوج بوجكی (pabuc böceği, “cricket”)
• یلدز بوجكی (yıldız böceği, “glowworm”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: böcek
• → Armenian: պէօճէկ (pēōčēk), բէօջա̈գ^յ (bēōǰäg^y)
• → Laz: ბოჯეღი (boceği)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “böcek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 670
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بوجك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 128b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوجك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 280
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Insectum”, 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 823
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوجك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 910
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “böcek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوجك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 392