اوراق

Ottoman Turkish

اوراق

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)

1. sickle, a tool having a semicircular knife, used for cutting long grass

   Synonyms: داس (das), منجل (mincel)

2. (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

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• 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^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 77a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوراق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], 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^[3], 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^[4], Vienna, column 496
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “orak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوراق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 242

Etymology 2

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

Noun

اوراق • (evrak)

1. plural of ورق (varak, “leaf”):
   1. leaves of flowers or trees
   2. skins or folios of parchment
   3. sheets of paper
   4. 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

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• 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^[6], Vienna: F. Beck, page 77a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوراق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[7], 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^[8], 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^[9], Vienna, column 496
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “evrak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوراق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[10], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 242