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Bashkir
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *uĺak (“slander”).
Cognate with Kyrgyz өсек (ösek, “slander; gossip”), Kyrgyz ушак (uşak, “slander; gossip”), Uyghur ئۇششاق (ushshaq, “slander; gossip”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʊ̞ˈʂɑq/
- Hyphenation: о‧шаҡ
Noun
ошаҡ • (oşaq)
- the act or practice of informing on somebody else in betrayal of that person; snitching
- making a malicous statement about somebody else or misrepresenting that person's deeds, thus damaging that person's reputation; slander
Declension
Declension of ошаҡ (oşaq)
Derived terms
- ошаҡсы (oşaqsı, “informer, tattletale”)
- ошаҡлау (oşaqlaw, “to infrom on somebody”)