عاشق

Derived from the active participle of عَشِقَ‎ (ʕašiqa, “to love”), from the root ع ش ق‎ (ʕ-š-q).

• IPA^(key): /ʕaː.ʃiq/

عَاشِق • (ʕāšiq) (feminine عَاشِقَة‎ (ʕāšiqa), masculine plural عَاشِقُونَ‎ (ʕāšiqūna) or عُشَّاق‎ (ʕuššāq), feminine plural عَاشِقَات‎ (ʕāšiqāt) or عَوَاشِق‎ (ʕawāšiq))

1. in love with, enamored of, infatuated with

عَاشِق • (ʕāšiq) m (plural عَاشِقُونَ‎ (ʕāšiqūna) or عُشَّاق‎ (ʕuššāq), feminine عَاشِقَة‎ (ʕāšiqa))

1. admirer, lover, adorer

In many descendants the word has taken on the meaning of “ashugh, mystic bard, balladeer, or troubadour”. This sense developed in Turkic, according to Sevortjan (apud Anikin) under the influence of Armenian. According to Asatryan, the term is of Sufi origin.

• عِشْق‎ (ʕišq)

• Azerbaijani: aşiq, aşıq
  • Russian: аши́к (ašík)
• Crimean Tatar: aşıq
• Kipchak:

  Armeno-Kipchak: աշըխ (ašəx)

  Cuman: asuch (/*ašuq/)

  • Armenian: աշուղ (ašuł)
    • English: ashough, ashugh
    • Georgian: აშუღი (ašuɣi)
    • Russian: ашу́г (ašúg)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: aşiq

• → Malay: asyik, asik
  • Indonesian: asyik, asik
• Ottoman Turkish: عاشق‎ (âşık)
  • Turkish: âşık
  • Albanian: ashik
  • Bulgarian: аши́к (ašík)
  • English: ashik, ashiq (or from another Turkic language)
  • Georgian: აშიკი (ašiḳi)
  • Greek: ασίκης (asíkis), ασήκης (asíkis)
  • Macedonian: ашик (ašik)
  • Middle Armenian: աշըխ (ašəx), աշըղ (ašəł), աշըք (ašəkʿ)
    • Armenian: աշըխ (ašəx), աշըղ (ašəł)
  • Serbo-Croatian: àšik / а̀шик
• Persian: عاشق‎ ('âšeq)
  • Bashkir: ғашиҡ (ğaşiq)
  • Chagatai: [script needed] (ašik)
  • Khalaj: âşıq
  • Tatar: гашыйк (ğaşıyk)
  • Hindustani:

    Hindi: आशिक़ (āśiq)

    Urdu: عاشق‎

  • Kazakh: ғашық (ğaşyq)
  • Kyrgyz: ашык (aşık)
  • Tajik: ошиқ (ošiq)
    • Uzbek: oshiq
  • Turkmen: aşyk

• Anikin, A. E. (2007), “ашик”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 1 (а – аяюшка), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 353
• Anikin, A. E. (2007), “ашуг”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 1 (а – аяюшка), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 355
• Асатрян, Г. С. (2013), “Парфянское gōsān [Parthian gōsān]”, in С. Р. Тохтасьев, П. Б. Лурье, editors, Commentationes Iranicae. Сборник статей к 90-летию Владимира Ароновича Лившица‎ (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriya, →ISBN, page 103 of 102–105
• Corriente, F. (1997), “ʿŠQ”, in A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29), Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 354b
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “عاشق”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 132
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “عاشق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2054
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “aşık1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Seeger, Ulrich (2015) Wörterbuch Palästinensisch-Deutsch‎, archived from the original on 2016-03-05, page 407
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “عشق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 614b

عاشِق (âşıq)

1. Arabic spelling of âşıq (“in love”)

عاشق (‘aşiq) m

1. Arabic spelling of aşiq

• Chyet, Michael L. (2020), “aşiq”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 16

عاشق • (āshíḳ) m

1. lover, amorist

• “عاشق”, in Pashto Dictionary (in English), Peshawar, Pakistan: Pukhtoogle, 2020.
• Pashtoon, Zeeya A. (2009), “عاشق”, in Pashto–English Dictionary, Hyattsville: Dunwoody Press

From Arabic عَاشِق‎ (ʕāšiq).

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /ɑːˈʃiq/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /ɒːˈʃɪq/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /ɒːˈʃeɢ/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /ɔːˈʃiq/

عاشق • ('âšeq)

1. loving
2. amorous
3. enamoured

عاشق • ('âšeq) (plural عاشقان‎ ('âšeqân) or عشاق‎ ('oššâq) or عاشق‌ها‎ ('âšeq-hâ))

1. lover

• دلداده‎ (deldâde)
• دلباخته‎ (delbâxte)
• بیدل‎ (bidel)
• خاطرخواه‎ (xâterxâh)
• شیدا‎ (šeydâ)
• شیفته‎ (šifte)
• دوستدار‎ (dustdâr)

• عشاق‎ ('ošâq)
• عاشقانه‎ ('âšeqâne)
• عاشق بودن‎ ('âšeq budan)
• عاشق شدن‎ ('âšeq šodan)