قاشیق

Ottoman Turkish

قاشیق

Alternative forms

• قاشق (kaşık)

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish قاشق (qašuq, qašıq), from Proto-Turkic *kaĺuk (“spoon”); synchronically diminutive of قاش (kaş, “eyebrow; collet of a finger-ring; wooden bowl, small dish”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (qašuq), Azerbaijani qaşıq, Kazakh қасық (qasyq), Khakas хазых (xazıx), Tofa ӄаъһиӄ (qa'hiq), Uyghur قوشۇق (qoshuq) and Uzbek qoshiq.

Noun

قاشیق • (kaşık)

1. spoon, a scooped utensil for eating or serving

   Synonym: ملعقه (milʿaka)

Derived terms

• خوشاف قاشیغی (hoşaf kaşığı, “tortoise-shell spoon”)
• قاشقجین (kaşıkcın, “northern shoveler; pelican”)
• قاشیق آتمق (kaşık atmak, “to eat heartily”)
• قاشیق اوتی (kaşık otu, “scurvy-grass”)
• قاشیق دشمنی (kaşık düşmanı, “one's wife or family”)
• قاشیق صاپی (kaşık sapı, “spoon handle”)
• قاشیقجی (kaşıkcı, “maker or seller of spoons”)
• قهوه قاشیغی (kahve kaşığı, “coffee spoon”)
• چوربه قاشیغی (çorba kaşığı, “soupspoon”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kaşık
• → Libyan Arabic: كاشيك (kāšīk)
• → Romanian: cașică (rare)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ка̀шика

  Latin script: kàšika

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaşık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2463
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قاشق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 350b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قاشیق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 928
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cochlear”, 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 194
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قاشق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3584
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kaşık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قاشیق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1416