شقا

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• شاقه (şaka)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَقَاء (šaqāʔ, “misery, wretchedness”); the meaning "joke, prank" may be an ironic derivation from the Arabic word.

Noun

شقا • (şaka)

1. misery, wretchedness, an unhappy state of mental or physical suffering
2. joke, prank, jest, anything said or done in amusement, not in seriousness

   Synonym: اویون (oyun)

Derived terms

• ال شقا (el şaka, “practical joke”)
• شقا ایتمك (şaka etmek, “to jest, to play jokes”)
• شقاجی (şakacı, “joker, jester”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: şaka
• → Albanian: shaka
• → Armenian: շախա (šaxa)
• → Iraqi Arabic: شقة (šaqa)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şaka1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4418
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “شقا”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 288a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شقا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 730
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Petulantia”, 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 1295
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شقا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2832
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şaka”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شقا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1130