اوزون اشك
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From اوزون (uzun, “long; tall”) + اشك (eşek, “donkey, ass”).
Noun
- leapfrog, a game in which a player leaps like a frog over the back of another person who has stooped over
Descendants
- Turkish: uzuneşek
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “اوزون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 165
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “uzuneşek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5023
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوزون اشك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 252