اشك

See also: اشک‎ and أشك‎

Arabic

Verb

اُشْكُ • (ušku) (form I)

second-person masculine singular active imperative of شَكَا‎ (šakā)

Ottoman Turkish

اشك

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *eĺčgek (“donkey”); cognate with Azerbaijani eşşək, Bashkir ишәк (işäk), Chuvash ашак (aš̬ak), Kazakh есек (esek), Kyrgyz эшек (eşek), Tatar ишәк (işäk), Turkmen eşek, Uyghur ئىشەق‎ (isheq) and Uzbek eshak.

Noun

اشك • (eşek)

donkey, ass (Equus asinus)
Synonyms: حمار‎ (himar), خر‎ (har), مركب‎ (merkeb)
(figuratively) silly, stupid, perverse man

Derived terms

اشك آریسی‎ (eşek arısı, “hornet”)
اشك بالغی‎ (eşek balığı, “stockfish”)
اشك دیكنی‎ (eşek dikeni, “cotton thistle”)
اشك سینكی‎ (eşek sineği, “gadfly”)
اشكجی‎ (eşekci, “donkey-driver”)
سینكی قولاغی‎ (eşek kulağı, “centaury”)
یابان اشكی‎ (yaban eşeği, “onager”)

Descendants

Turkish: eşek
Gagauz: yeşek
→ Armenian: էշեկ (ēšek)
→ Bulgarian: ешѐк (ešèk)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ѐшек

Latin: èšek
→? Sicilian: sceccu

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “eşek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1496
Kélékian, Diran (1911), “اشك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 98
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Asinus”, 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, Vienna, column 90
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “اشك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 241
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “eşek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “اشك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 122

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