آوج

See also: اوچ, اوخ, and أوج

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • آئوج (aʼvuc), آووج (avuc)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish [Term?] (“palm; handful”), from Proto-Turkic *abuč (“palm; handful”).

Cognates

Cognate with Azerbaijani ovuc, Bashkir ус (us), Chuvash ывӑҫ (yvăś), Kazakh уыс (uys), Kumyk увуч (uwuç), Kyrgyz ууч (uuc), Old Uyghur 𐽰𐽰𐽸𐽳𐾀 (ʾʾdwt /⁠adut⁠/), Turkmen owuç and Uzbek havuch.

Noun

آوج • (avuc) (definite accusative آوجی (avucu), plural آوجلر (avuclar))

  1. palm, the inner and somewhat concave part of the human hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers
    Synonyms: آیا (aya), كف (keff)
  2. handful, fistful, the amount that a hand will grasp or contain or that can be held in a closed fist
    Synonym: آوج طولوسی (avuc dolusu)
  3. (figurative) trifle, modicum, tittle, iota, jot, smidgen, ounce, a very small, trifling, or insignificant amount of something
    Synonyms: پارچه (parça), هیچ (hiç)

Derived terms

  • آوج ایچی (avuc içi, “hollow of the hand”)
  • آوج طولوسی (avuc dolusu, “handful”)
  • آوجلامق (avuclamak, “to grasp, take by handfuls”)
  • آوجلو (avuclu, “provided with palms”)
  • آوجه صیغمق (avuca sığmak, “to be dominated”)
  • بر آوج (bir avuc, “a small quantity, a handful”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: avuç
  • → Armenian: ավուճ (avuč)

Further reading

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  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “avuç”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آوج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 139
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “avuç”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 366
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آوج”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 75b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آوج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 40b
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Palma”, 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 1235
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آوج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎[4], Vienna, column 487
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “avuç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آوج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 238
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