آرپه‌جق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From آرپه (arpa, “barley”) +‎ ـجق (-cık, diminutive suffix).

Noun

آرپه‌جق • (arpacık)

Diminutive of آرپه
stye (eyelid inflammation)
sight (aiming device on a gun barrel)

Descendants

Turkish: arpacık
→ Armenian: արփաճըխ (arpʻačəx)
→ Bulgarian: арпаджик (arpadžik)
→ Romanian: arpagic
→ Serbo-Croatian: arpadžik

References

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آرپه‌جق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 60
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آرپه‌جق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 388

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