یاصدق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yaŕtuk (pillow); cognate with Azerbaijani yastıq, Bashkir яҫтыҡ (yaśtıq), Chuvash ҫытар (śyt̬ar), Kazakh жастық (jastyq), Kyrgyz жаздык (jazdık), Turkmen ýassyk, Uyghur ياستۇق (yastuq), Uzbek yostiq and Yakut сыттык (sıttık).

Noun

یاصدق • (yasdık) (definite accusative یاصدغی (yasdığı), plural یاصدقلر (yasdıklar))

  1. pad, cushion, bolster, a flattened mass of anything soft, like wool, used to sit or lie on
    Synonym: مندر (minder)
  2. pillow, a soft cushion used to support the head and neck in bed while sleeping
    Synonym: بالش (baliş)
  3. fender, any cushion-like object placed along the sides of a boat to prevent damage
    Synonym: اوستورماچه (usturmaça)
  4. (agriculture) seedbed, the local soil environment in which seeds are planted and grown

Derived terms

  • ایكنه یاصدغی (iğne yasdığı, pincushion)
  • بیق یاصدغی (bıyık yasdığı, part of the beard near the moustache)
  • جراح یاصدغی (cerrâh yasdığı, surgeon's pad)
  • دوشه‌مه یاصدغی (döşeme yasdığı, kind of hard bolster or cushion)
  • طوپ یاصدغی (top yasdığı, bed that supports a cannon)
  • فدان یاصدغی (fidan yasdığı, nursery bed)
  • قولتق یاصدغی (koltuk yasdığı, bolster on which the elbow may be rested)
  • كوشه یاصدغی (köşe yasdığı, fine earth for a seedbed)
  • یاصدق دیكمك (yasdık dikmek, to sow seed in a bed)
  • یاصدق طوپراغی (yasdık toprağı, fine earth for a seedbed)
  • یاصدق قلیفی (yasdık kılıfı, pillowcase)
  • یاصدقلو (yasdıklı, furnished with pillows)
  • یوز یاصدغی (yüz yasdığı, kind of soft pillow)
  • ییلان یاصدغی (yılan yasdığı, dragonwort)
  • یاصدیغاج (yasdığac, flattening board)
  • یاصمق (yasmak, to flatten, level)
  • یاصی (yassı, flat and wide)

Descendants

  • Turkish: yastık
  • Albanian: jastëk
  • Armenian: եաստըխ (eastəx)
  • Bulgarian: ястъ́к (jastǎ́k)
  • Macedonian: јастук (jastuk)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ја̀стук
    Latin script: jàstuk

Further reading