آجی
Bakhtiari edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Persian آبجی (âbji), from Proto-Turkic *bāča. Cognate with Azerbaijani bacı.
Noun edit
آجی (âji)
Synonyms edit
- (sister): ددو (dedu)
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *iāčïg (“bitter”); cognate with Azerbaijani acı, Bashkir асы (ası), Chuvash йӳҫӗ (jüś̬ĕ), Kazakh ащы (aşy), Kyrgyz ачуу (acuu), Turkmen ājy, Uyghur ئاچچىق (achchiq), Uzbek achchiq and Yakut аһыы (ahıı).
Adjective edit
آجی • (acı)
- bitter, having an acrid taste, usually from a basic substance
- (of water) brackish, salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water
- (of words) bitter, reproachful, scathing, harsh, caustic, vitriolic
- (of sounds) dismal, lugubrious, dreary, cheerless, gloomy
Derived terms edit
- آجی آغاج (acı ağac, “quassia, bitterwood”)
- آجی الما (acı elma, “colocynth”)
- آجی بادم (acı badem, “bitter almond”)
- آجی دل (acı dil, “reproach, bitter words”)
- آجی سس (acı ses, “unpleasant voice”)
- آجی سوز (acı söz, “bitter words”)
- آجی صو (acı su, “brackish water”)
- آجی مارول (acı marul, “bitter lettuce”)
- آجیجه (acıca, “bitterish”)
- آجیلتمق (acılatmak, “to render a thing bitter”)
- آجیلق (acılık, “bitterness”)
- آجیلنمق (acılanmak, “to become bitter”)
Descendants edit
- Gagauz: acı
- Turkish: acı
- → Armenian: աճի (ači) — Constantinople
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “acı1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 91
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آجی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 10b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 7
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Amarus”, 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 54
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 69
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “acı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 31