یوفقه
Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
editInherited from Proto-Turkic *yubka (“thin (of flat objects)”);[1] cognate with Bashkir йоҡа (yoqa), Kazakh жұқа (jūqa), Kyrgyz жука (juka), Kumyk юкъкъа (yuqqa), Southern Altai јука (ǰuka), Turkmen ýuka, Uyghur يۇپقا (yupqa) and Uzbek yupqa.
Adjective
editیوفقه • (yufka)
- thin, having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite
- Synonym: اینچه (inçe)
- brittle, friable, crisp, easily broken into small fragments or crumbles
Derived terms
edit- یوفقه دریجك (yufka dericik, “very thin membrane”)
- یوفقهجه (yufkaca, “somewhat thin or brittle”)
- یوفقهلاتمق (yufkalatmak, “to beat or roll out thin”)
- یوفقهلانمق (yufkalanmak, “to become thin or brittle”)
- یوفقهلق (yufkalık, “thinness”)
Noun
editیوفقه • (yufka)
Descendants
edit- Turkish: yufka
- → Armenian: յուֆխա (yufxa)
- → Bulgarian: юфка́ (jufká)
- → English: yufka
- → Macedonian: јуфка (jufka)
- → Romanian: iofca
References
edit- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jubka”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Further reading
edit- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yufka”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5375
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یوفقه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 514a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یوفقه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1365
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tenuis”, 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 1661
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یوفقه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 5625
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yufka”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یوفقه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2216