اشك

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See also: اشک and أشك

Arabic

Verb

اُشْكُ (ušku) (form I)

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

Ottoman Turkish

اشك

Etymology 1

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

Noun

اشك (eşek)

  1. donkey, ass (Equus asinus)
    Synonyms: حمار (himar), خر (har), مركب (merkeb)
  2. (figuratively) silly, stupid, perverse man
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Turkish: eşek
  • Gagauz: yeşek
  • Armenian: էշեկ (ēšek)
  • Bulgarian: ешѐк (ešèk)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ѐшек
    Latin script: èšek
  • ? Sicilian: sceccu

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian اشک (ašk).

Noun

اشك (eşk)

  1. tear, eyewater

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