یوزوك

Ottoman Turkish

یوزوك

Alternative forms

• یوزك (yüzük)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yüŕük (“ring”) and thus related to اوزنگی (üzengi, “stirrup”); cognate with Azerbaijani üzük, Bashkir йөҙөк (yöźök), Chuvash ҫӗрӗ (śĕrĕ), Kazakh жүзік (jüzık), Kyrgyz жүзүк (jüzük), Tatar йөзек (yözek), Turkmen ýüzük, Uyghur ئۈزۈك (üzük), Uzbek uzuk and Yakut сүһүөх (sühüöq).

Noun

یوزوك • (yüzük)

1. ring, a round piece of precious metal worn around a finger

   Synonyms: حلقه (halka), خاتم (hatem)

Derived terms

• یوزوك پرمغی (yüzük parmağı, “ring finger”)
• یوزوكلو (yüzüklü, “furnished with a ring”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: yüzük

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yüzük”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5417
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یوزوك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1364
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Annulus”, 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 65
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یوزك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5623
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yüzük”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یوزوك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2215