عاشق

Arabic

Etymology

Derived from the active participle of عَشِقَ (ʕašiqa, “to love”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʕaː.ʃiq/

Adjective

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

Declension

Noun

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

1. admirer, lover, adorer

Usage notes

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.

Declension

Related terms

• عِشْق (ʕišq)

Descendants

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

  Armeno-Kipchak: աշըխ (ašəx)

  Cuman: asuch (/⁠*ašuq⁠/)

  • Armenian: աշուղ (ašuġ)
    • 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 (ašəġ), աշըք (ašəkʻ)
    • Armenian: աշըխ (ašəx), աշըղ (ašəġ)
  • Serbo-Croatian: àšik / а̀шик
• Persian: عاشق ('âšeq)
  • Bashkir: ғашиҡ (ğaşiq)
  • Bengali: আশেক (aśek)
  • Chagatai: (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

References

• Anikin, A. E. (2007) “ашик”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), numbers 1 (A – аяюшка), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 353
• Anikin, A. E. (2007) “ашуг”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), numbers 1 (A – 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, page 2054
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “aşık1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Seeger, Ulrich (2015) Wörterbuch Palästinensisch-Deutsch‎, archived from the original on 5 March 2016, 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

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic عَاشِق (ʕāšiq).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʕaː.ʃiɡ/,

Adjective

عَاشِق • (ʕāšig) (feminine عَاشْقة (ʕāšga), common plural عَاشْقين (ʕāšgīn))

1. admirer, lover, adorer

Khalaj

Adjective

عاشِق (âşıq)

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

Northern Kurdish

Noun

عاشق (‘aşiq) m

1. Arabic spelling of aşiq

References

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

Pashto

Noun

عاشق • (āšíq) m

1. lover, amorist

References

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

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَاشِق (ʕāšiq).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

عاشق • ('âšeq)

1. loving
2. amorous
3. enamoured

Noun

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

1. lover

Synonyms

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

Related terms

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

Descendants

• → Khalaj: âşıq

Urdu

Etymology

First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi عاشِق ('āśiq), borrowed from Classical Persian عَاشِق ('āšiq), from Arabic عَاشِق (ʕāšiq).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)ɑː.ʃɪq/

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• Rhymes: -ɪq
• Hyphenation: عا‧شِق

Noun

عاشِق • ('āśiq) m (feminine عاشِقَہ ('āśiqa), Hindi spelling आशिक़)

1. lover

   Synonym: پْریمی (premī)

2. (by extension) fond, affection

Declension

Related terms

• عِشْق ('iśq, “love”)

Further reading

• “عاشق”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “عاشق”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “عاشق”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “عاشق”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “عاشق”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “عاشق”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC