# اوشاق
## Old Anatolian Turkish
### Alternative forms

* اوشاغ (uşaġ), اوشاخ (uşaḫ), اوشق (uşaq)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Common Turkic *ubšak, a derivation from *ubša-. By surface analysis, اوشاـ (uşa-, “to make small, to break down”) +‎ ـاق (-aq).

### Adjective

اوشاق • (uşaq)
* tiny, minuscule
    Synonym: كچوك (giçük, kiçük)

### Noun

اوشاق • (uşaq) (definite accusative اوشاغی (uşaġı), plural اوشاقلر (uşaqlar))
* child, kid
    Synonyms: چولق (çoluq), جرباغ (cırbaġ), اوغلانجوق (oġlancuq)
* small, dust-sized piece of something
* anklebone

#### Derived terms

* اوشاجوق (uşacuq, “little kid”)
* اوشاق دوشك (uşaq dävşäk, “(collective) children”)

#### Related terms

* اوق (uvaq, “tiny”)

#### Descendants

* Azerbaijani: uşaq
* Gagauz: uşak
* Ottoman Turkish: اوشاق (uşak), وشق (vuşak)
** Turkish: uşak
** → Armenian: ուշախ (ušax)
** → Ubykh: ушақ (uŝak)

### Further reading

* Kanar, Mehmet (2018) “uşak”, in Eski Anadolu Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Old Anatolian Turkish Dictionary] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Istanbul: Say Yayınları, page 678
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “uşak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* “uşak”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎ (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1977

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish اوشاق (uşaq), from Proto-Common Turkic *ubšak, a derivation from *ubša- compare Old Turkic [script needed] (uvšak/ušak, “small”), Azerbaijani uşaq.

#### Noun

اوشاق • (uşak)
* boy, lad, youth, a young male
    Synonyms: اوغلان (oğlan), پسر (pıser), شاب (şab), غلام (ğulam)
* manservant, servingman, a male servant
    Synonyms: خدمتجی (hizmetci), خدمتكار (hizmetkâr)
* apprentice, a trainee in a skilled trade
    Synonyms: چراق (çırak), شاگرد (şagird)

##### Derived terms

* آت اوشاغی (at uşağı, “groom”)
* او اوشاقلری (ev uşakları, “members of a household”)
* اوشاق قاپان (uşak kapan, “Nubian vulture”)
* اوشاقلق (uşaklık, “profession of a manservant”)
* چادر اوشاغی (çadır uşağı, “tent-pitcher”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: uşak
* → Armenian: ուշախ (ušax)
* → Ubykh: ушақ (uŝak)

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “uşak4”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5001
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اوشاق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 81a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوشاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 189
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Puerulus”, 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 1401
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوشاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 517
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “uşak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوشاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 254

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic أُشَّق (ʔuššaq, “gum ammoniac”), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (wšʾk /⁠wašak⁠/), [Book Pahlavi needed] (wšk /⁠wašak⁠/).

#### Alternative forms

* وشق (vuşak)

#### Noun

اوشاق • (uşak)
* gum ammoniac, ammoniacum, a resin exuded from several plants of the genus Ferula

##### Derived terms

* اوشاق فدانی (uşak fidanı, “Ferula ammoniacum”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: uşak

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “uşak5”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5001
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوشاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 254