عموجه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• عمجه (amca)

Etymology

From the older form آبجه (abıca, abuca), from Proto-Turkic *abučka (“uncle”), probably under the influence of Arabic عَمّ (ʕamm, “paternal uncle”); cognate with Chuvash упӑшка (up̬ăška), Kazakh абышка (abyşka), Kyrgyz абышка (abışka), Southern Altai абышка (abïška) and Tuvan ашак (aşak).

Noun

عموجه • (ʿamuca)

1. paternal uncle, one's father's brother

Coordinate terms

• دایی (dayı, “maternal uncle”)

Derived terms

• عموجه اوغلی (ʿamuca oğlu, “first cousin”)

Descendants

• Turkish: amca
• → Armenian: ամուճա (amuča)
• → Bulgarian: аму́джа (amúdža)
• → Serbo-Croatian: а̀миџа / àmidža

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “amca”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 231
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “عموجه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 860
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Patruus”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1253
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “عموجه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3331
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “amca”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عموجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1321