بوجاق
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Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- بجاق (bucak), بوچاق (buçak), بچاق (buçak)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *būčgak (“corner, angle”), a development of *būč- or *bïč-. Cognate with Tatar почмак (poçmaq), Uyghur بۇرجەك (burjek), and Uzbek burchak.
Noun
بوجاق • (bucak)
- (geometry) angle, a figure formed by two rays which start from a common point
- corner, nook, the space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point
- (by extension, historical) bucak, a subdistrict of a district within a Turkish province
Derived terms
- بوجاق بوجاق آرامق (bucak bucak aramak, “to seek in every corner”)
- بوجاقلو (bucaklı, “furnished with corners or angles”)
- تاتار بوجاغی (tatar bucağı, “Bessarabia”)
- سیوری بوجاق (sivri bucak, “acute angle”)
- گوت بوجاق (göt bucak, “obtuse angle”)
- گونیه بوجاق (gönye bucak, “right angle”)
Descendants
- Turkish: bucak
- → Armenian: պուճախ (pučax), պուջախ (puǰax), պոճախ (počax)
- → Bulgarian: буджа́к (budžák)
- → English: bucak
- → Romanian: Bugeac
- → Serbo-Croatian:
Proper noun
بوجاق • (bucak)
- (historical) Bessarabia, a geographic region in Eastern Europe bounded by the rivers Dniester and Prut
- Synonym: تاتار بوجاغی (tatar bucağı)
- Bucak (a town and district in Burdur province, Turkey)
Descendants
- Turkish: Bucak
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bucak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 682
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بوجاق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 128b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوجاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 280
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Angulus”, 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, Vienna, column 62
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوجاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 909-910
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bucak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Bucak”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوجاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 392
- Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Bucak”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 134
- Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “بچاق”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 177
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