# آج
## Kalami
### Etymology

Cognate with Kashmiri اَز (az).

### Adverb

آج (āǰ)
* today

## Old Anatolian Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *āč

### Adjective

آجْ (āç)
* hungry

### Noun

آجْ (āç)
* someone who is hungry
    آجْ كُورْسَك طُويُرْغِلْ ، يَلِنْجَقْ كُورْسَكْ طُونَاتْغِلْāç görseŋ ṭoyurġıl, yalıncak görseŋ ṭonatġılif you see someone hungry, feed them; if you see someone barefoot, equip them

#### Descendants

* Azerbaijani: ac
* Gagauz: aaç
* Ottoman Turkish: آج (aç)
** Turkish: aç

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish آجْ (āç), from Proto-Turkic *āč. Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰀𐰲 (āč), Azerbaijani ac, Bashkir ас (as), Kazakh аш (aş), Kyrgyz ач (ac), Turkmen aç, Uyghur ئاچ (ach), Uzbek och and Yakut аас (aas).

#### Adjective

آج • (ac)
* hungry, affected by hunger, having the physical need for food
    Synonyms: جائع (caʼiʼ), كرسنه (gürsine)
* fasting, abstaining from food, especially for religious reasons
    Synonym: اوروجلو (oruclu)
* greedy, covetous, avaricious, distastefully keen or desirous
    Synonyms: آج كوزلو (ac gözlü), حریص (hâris)
* (of soil) hungry, starved, deprived of nourishment, not fertile

##### Derived terms

* آج آجنه (ac acına, “through prolonged privation of food”)
* آج صوسز (ac susuz, “deprived of food and water”)
* آج طورمق (ac durmak, “to remain without food”)
* آج طوپراق (ac toprak, “dry soil”)
* آج طویرمق (ac doyurmak, “to feed the poor”)
* آج قارننه (ac karnına, “on an empty stomach”)
* آج قالمق (ac kalmak, “to go hungry, be starved”)
* آج قومق (ac komak, “to keep a man starving”)
* آج كوزلو (ac gözlü, “covetous”)
* آجلق (aclık, “hunger”)
* آجلو (aclı, “hungered”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: aç
* → Laz: აჯი (aci)

#### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 15
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “aç1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 96
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آج”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 8a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 7
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Famelicus”, 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 549
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 55
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “aç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 25

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian [Term?].

#### Noun

آج • (ac) (definite accusative آجی (acı), plural آجلر (aclar))
* tamarisk, salt cedar, any of several shrubs in the genus Tamarix
    Synonyms: ایلغین (ılgın), طرفا (tarfa), كز (gez)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: ac

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ac2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 88
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “âc”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 8
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tamarix”, 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 1648
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 55
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 26

## Urdu
### Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀅𑀚𑁆𑀚 (ajja), from Sanskrit अद्य (adyá).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ɑːd͡ʒ/

### Adverb

آج • (āj) (Hindi spelling आज)
* today

#### Coordinate terms

Dates relative to today in Urdu (layout · text) :
| | –3 | –2 | –1 | 0 | +1 | +2 | +3 |
| direct speech | three days ago | two days ago | yesterday | today | tomorrow | in two days | in three days |
| direct speech | تَرْسوں (tarsõ) | پَرْسوں (parsõ) | کَل (kal) | آج (āj) | کَل (kal) | پَرْسوں (parsõ) | تَرْسوں (tarsõ) |
| reported speech | three days before, three days earlier | two days before, two days earlier | the day before | on that day | the next day | two days later | three days later |
| reported speech | تِین دِن پَہْلے (tīn din pahle) تِین دِن قَبْل (tīn din qabl) | دو دِن پَہْلے (do din pahle) دو دِن قَبْل (do din qabl) | پِچْھلے دِن (pichle din) ایک دِن پَہْلے (ek din pahle) ایک دِن قَبْل (ek din qabl) | اُس دِن (us din) | اَگْلے دِن (agle din) ایک دِن بَعْد (ek din ba'd) | دُوسْرے دِن (dūsre din) دو دِن بَعْد (do din ba'd) | تِیسْرے دِن (tīsre din) تِین دِن بَعْد (tīn din ba'd) |

### Noun

آج • (āj) m (Hindi spelling आज)
* today
    Synonyms: اِمْروز (imroz), اَدْیہ (adyh)

### References

* Platts, John T. (1884) “آج”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

## Ushojo
### Adverb

آج (āj)
* today