# باشاق
## Old Anatolian Turkish
### Alternative forms

* بَشَاقْ (başaq)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *baĺak.

### Noun

بَاشَاقْ (başaq)
* head of a sharp weapon such as a spear, spade, and especially of an arrow
* ear of a grain

#### Related terms

* بَاشْ

#### Descendants

* Azerbaijani: başaq
* Gagauz: başak
* Ottoman Turkish: باشاق (başak)
** Turkish: başak
** → Armenian: բաշաղ (bašaġ), բաշախ (bašax), պաշաղ (pašaġ), պաշախ (pašax)

### References

* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “başak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

### Further reading

* Boeschoten, Hendrik (2022) “bašaq”, in A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.169), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 75

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish بَاشَاقْ (başaq), from Proto-Turkic *baĺak; equivalent to باش (baş, “head”) +‎ ـاق (-ak, noun and adjective diminutive suffix). Cognate with Azerbaijani başaq, Bashkir башаҡ (başaq), Kazakh масақ (masaq), Southern Altai мажак (mažak) and Uzbek bоshоq.

### Noun

باشاق • (başak)
* head of a sharp weapon such as a spear, spade, and especially of an arrow
* (botany) ear, spike, head, the fruiting body of a grain plant
    Synonyms: خوشه (huşe), سنبله (sunbule)
* (in harvesting) fallen or left behind ear of corn in a field
* small, straggling bunch of grapes or dates left on the tree after the fruit is gathered

#### Derived terms

* باشاق باغلامق (başak bağlamak, “to come into ear”)
* باشاق طوتمق (başak tutmak, “to come into ear”)
* باشاقجی (başakcı, “gleaner”)
* باشاقسز (başaksız, “earless, spikeless”)
* باشاقلانمق (başaklanmak, “to come into ear, to ear”)
* باشاقلو (başaklı, “eared; with gleanings left”)
* قره باشاق (kara başak, “rye”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: başak
* → Armenian: բաշաղ (bašaġ), բաշախ (bašax), պաշաղ (pašaġ), պաշախ (pašax)

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “başak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 493
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “باشاق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 102b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باشاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 239
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Spica”, 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 1583
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “باشاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 663–664
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “başak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باشاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 325

## Uyghur
### Etymology

Inherited from Chagatai باشاق (bašaq), from Karakhanid بَشَقْ (bašaq), from Proto-Turkic *baĺak, derived from *baĺč (“head”). Cognates with Turkish başak.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɑʃɑq/

### Noun

باشاق • (bashaq) (plural باشاقلار (bashaqlar))
* grain ear, spike

### References

* ↑ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “1 başak”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 378

### Further reading

* Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN