بوجاق

Ottoman Turkish

بوجاق

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)

1. (geometry) angle, a figure formed by two rays which start from a common point

   Synonyms: زاویه (zaviye), كنج (künc), كوشه (köşe)

2. corner, nook, the space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point

   Synonyms: زاویه (zaviye), كنج (künc), كوشه (köşe)

3. (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:

  Cyrillic script: бу̀џа̄к

  Latin script: bùdžāk

Bucak district

Proper noun

بوجاق • (bucak)

1. (historical) Bessarabia, a geographic region in Eastern Europe bounded by the rivers Dniester and Prut

   Synonym: تاتار بوجاغی (tatar bucağı)

2. 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