آچق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• آچوق (açuk), آچیق (açık)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ačuk (“open”); cognate with Azerbaijani açıq, Bashkir асыҡ (asıq), Chuvash уҫӑ (uś̬ă), Kazakh ашық (aşyq), Kyrgyz ачык (acık), Tatar ачык (açıq), Turkmen açyk, Uyghur ئوچۇق (ochuq) and Uzbek ochiq.

Adjective

آچق • (açık)

1. open, able to be accessed, not closed

   Synonyms: آچلمش (açılmış), باز (baz), مفتوح (meftuh)

2. obvious, clear, evident, apparent, manifest, visible

   Synonyms: آشكار (aşikâr), بللی (belli), ظاهر (zahir), منجلی (münceli)

3. open, not covered, uncovered, without a roof on
4. (of the sky) clear, cloudless, without any clouds

   Synonym: بولوتسز (bulutsuz)

5. shameless, impudent, immodest, lacking modesty or shame

Derived terms

• آچق آغز (açık ağız, “babbler”)
• آچق ال (açık el, “a munificent person”)
• آچق باش (açık baş, “bareheaded”)
• آچق خوی (açık hoy, “impudent habit of mind”)
• آچق دكز (açık deñiz, “open sea”)
• آچق قاش (açık kaş, “eyebrows wide apart”)
• آچق لیمان (açık liman, “open anchorage”)
• آچق هوا (açık hava, “open air”)
• آچق گوز (açık göz, “open eye”)
• آچق یر (açık yer, “blank space”)
• آچق یوز (açık yüz, “cheerful look”)
• آچق یول (açık yol, “freeway”)
• آچقلق (açıklık, “openness”)
• آچقلمق (açıklamak, “to throw off disguise or concealment”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: açık
• → Albanian: açik
• → Armenian: աչըխ (ačʻəx), աչըղ (ačʻəġ)
• → Aromanian: acic
• → Bulgarian: ачи́к (ačík)
• → Macedonian: ачик (ačik)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: а̀чик, ха̀чик

  Latin script: àčik, hàčik

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “açık2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 98
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آچق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 9b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آچیق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 9
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Apertus”, 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 70
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آچق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 62
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “açık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آچق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 32