اوجوز
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- اوجز (ucuz), اجوز (ucuz)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ūčuŕ (“cheap”), from *ōču- (“to get smaller”); cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (učuz), Azerbaijani ucuz, Bashkir осһоҙ (oshoð), Karakhanid اُجُزْ (učuz), Tatar очсыз (oçsız) and Turkmen ujyz.
Adjective
اوجوز • (ucuz)
- cheap, of low and/or reduced price
- 1926 March 18, advertisement in Hakimiyet-i Milliye, page 6:
- برقاچ کون ایچنده شهرمزه كلهجك و بوصورتله هم ایی جنسدن هم ده اوجوز اولهرق هركس ایستدیكی قدر آلهبتلهجكدر.
- Birkaç gün içinde sehirmize gelecek ve bu suretle hem iyi cinsden hem de ucuz olarak herkes istediği kadar alabilecektir.
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- Antonym: بهالو (bahalı)
- 1926 March 18, advertisement in Hakimiyet-i Milliye, page 6:
Derived terms
- اوجوز صاتمق (ucuz satmak, “to sell cheaply”)
- اوجوزاتمق (ucuzatmak, “to decry a thing”)
- اوجوزجی (ucuzcu, “man who seeks cheap bargains”)
- اوجوزسنمق (ucuzsunmak, “to find cheap”)
- اوجوزلاتمق (ucuzlatmak, “to make a thing cheap”)
- اوجوزلامق (ucuzlamak, “to become cheap”)
- اوجوزلق (ucuzluk, “cheapness”)
Descendants
- Turkish: ucuz
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “ucuz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4959
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “اوجوز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 176
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Vilis”, 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 1760
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “اوجوز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 492
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “ucuz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “اوجوز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 239
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