یاشمق

Ottoman Turkish

یاشمق

Alternative forms

• եաշմագ (yaşmak) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yaĺmak (“veil”), a development of *yaĺ- (“to cover, close”). Cognate with Azerbaijani yaşmaq and Turkmen ýaşmak.

Noun

یاشمق • (yaşmak)

1. yashmak, niqab, any veil worn by women which covers their faces

   Synonyms: پرده (perde), حجاب (hicab), نقاب (nikab)

2. veil, something hung up or spread out to hide an object from view

Derived terms

• اوجاق یاشمغی (ocak yaşmağı, “curtain of cloth to an open fireplace”)
• قیز یاشمق (kız yaşmak, “kind of loose, open veil”)
• یاشمق باغلانمق (yaşmak bağlanmak, “to put on one's veil”)
• یاشمقجی (yaşmakcı, “female attendant in charge of the veils”)
• یاشمقسز (yaşmaksız, “unveiled”)
• یاشمقلامق (yaşmaklamak, “to veil”)
• یاشمقلانمق (yaşmaklanmak, “to put on one's veil”)
• یاشمقلق (yaşmaklık, “muslin suitable for a veil”)
• یاشمقلو (yaşmaklı, “veiled”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: yaşmak
• → Armenian: եաշմախ (eašmax), եաշմաղ (eašmaġ)
• → English: yashmak
• → Hijazi Arabic: شُمَاغ (šumāḡ)
• → Hungarian: jasmak
• → Polish: jaszmak
• → Romanian: iașmac
• → Ubykh: ӷашмақ (ğaŝmak)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yaşmak2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5243
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یاشمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 501a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یاشمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1339
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Velamen”, 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 1723
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یاشمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5545
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yaşmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاشمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2186