# اوراق
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *orgak (“sickle”), from *or- (“to reap”), the same root of اورامق (oramak, “to reap”); cognate with Azerbaijani oraq, Bashkir ураҡ (uraq), Kazakh орақ (oraq), Kyrgyz орок (orok), Tatar урак (uraq), Turkmen orak, Uyghur ئورغاق (orghaq) and Uzbek o'roq.

#### Noun

اوراق • (orak)
* sickle, a tool having a semicircular knife, used for cutting long grass
    Synonyms: داس (das), منجل (mincel)
* (by extension) harvest, the process of gathering the ripened crops

##### Derived terms

* اوراق بوجكی (orak böceği, “field cricket”)
* اوراق قوشی (orak kuşu, “great green bush-cricket”)
* اوراق ماكینه‌سی (orak makinesi, “harvester”)
* اوراق وقتی (orak vaktı, “harvest time”)
* اوراقجی (orakcı, “reaper”)
* اوراقلتمق (oraklatmak, “to make or let be reaped”)
* اوراقلمق (oraklamak, “to reap”)
* اوراقلنمق (oraklanmak, “to be reaped”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: orak
* → Armenian: (Constantinople) օռախ (ōṙax), (Nor Nakhichevan) օրախ (ōrax)

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “orak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3626
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اوراق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 77a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوراق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 179
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Falx”, 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 548
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوراق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 496
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “orak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوراق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 242

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic أَوْرَاق (ʔawrāq), plural form of وَرَق (waraq, “foliage, paper”).

#### Noun

اوراق • (evrak)
* plural of ورق (varak, “leaf”):
** leaves of flowers or trees
** skins or folios of parchment
** sheets of paper
** papers, letters, documents

##### Derived terms

* اوراق مخزنی (evrak mahzeni, “archive”)
* اوراق مدیری (evrak müdürü, “keeper of archives”)
* اوراق نقدیه (evrak-ı nakdiye, “paper-money”)
* اوراقجی (evrakcı, “archivist”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: evrak

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “evrak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1520
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اوراق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 77a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوراق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 179
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Folium”, 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 598
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوراق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 496
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “evrak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوراق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 242