# یاصدق
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* یاصدیق (yasdık)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yạŕtuk (“pillow”); cognate with Azerbaijani yastıq, Bashkir яҫтыҡ (yaśtıq), Chuvash ҫытар (śyt̬ar), Kazakh жастық (jastyq), Kyrgyz жаздык (jazdık), Turkmen ýassyk, Uyghur ياستۇق (yastuq), Uzbek yostiq and Yakut сыттык (sıttık).

### Noun

یاصدق • (yasdık) (definite accusative یاصدغی (yasdığı), plural یاصدقلر (yasdıklar))
* pad, cushion, bolster, a flattened mass of anything soft, like wool, used to sit or lie on
    Synonym: مندر (minder)
* pillow, a soft cushion used to support the head and neck in bed while sleeping
    Synonym: بالش (baliş)
* fender, any cushion-like object placed along the sides of a boat to prevent damage
    Synonym: اوستورماچه (usturmaça)
* (agriculture) seedbed, the local soil environment in which seeds are planted and grown

#### Derived terms

* ایكنه یاصدغی (iğne yasdığı, “pincushion”)
* بیق یاصدغی (bıyık yasdığı, “part of the beard near the moustache”)
* جراح یاصدغی (cerrâh yasdığı, “surgeon's pad”)
* دوشه‌مه یاصدغی (döşeme yasdığı, “kind of hard bolster or cushion”)
* طوپ یاصدغی (top yasdığı, “bed that supports a cannon”)
* فدان یاصدغی (fidan yasdığı, “nursery bed”)
* قولتق یاصدغی (koltuk yasdığı, “bolster on which the elbow may be rested”)
* كوشه یاصدغی (köşe yasdığı, “fine earth for a seedbed”)
* یاصدق دیكمك (yasdık dikmek, “to sow seed in a bed”)
* یاصدق طوپراغی (yasdık toprağı, “fine earth for a seedbed”)
* یاصدق قلیفی (yasdık kılıfı, “pillowcase”)
* یاصدقلو (yasdıklı, “furnished with pillows”)
* یوز یاصدغی (yüz yasdığı, “kind of soft pillow”)
* ییلان یاصدغی (yılan yasdığı, “dragonwort”)

#### Related terms

* یاصدیغاج (yasdığac, “flattening board”)
* یاصمق (yasmak, “to flatten, level”)
* یاصی (yassı, “flat and wide”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: yastık
* → Albanian: jastëk
* → Armenian: եաստըխ (eastəx)
* → Bulgarian: ястъ́к (jastǎ́k)
* → Macedonian: јастук (jastuk)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ја̀стук
    Latin script: jàstuk

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “یاصدیق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 866
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yastık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5237
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یاصدق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 501b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یاصدیق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1340
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pulvinar”, 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 1406
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یاصدق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5545
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yastık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاصدق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2186