یوقسول

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • یوخسول (yohsul)older form
  • եօգսուլ (yoksul), եօխսուլ (yohsul), եօղսուլ (yoğsul)Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

A widespread word in Turkic languages by c. 1300, apparently from Proto-Turkic *yoksuz (ineffective; poor, destitute), a derivation from *yōk (no; is not, there is not).[1] Cognate with Azerbaijani yoxsul.

Adjective

یوقسول • (yoksul)

  1. poor, indigent, destitute, in need
    Synonyms: فقیر (fakir), كدا (gedâ)

Derived terms

  • طیاق یوقسولی (dayak yoksulu, ill-mannered fellow)
  • یوقسوللق (yoksulluk, poverty, destitution)
  • یوق (yok, absent, not present)

Descendants

  • Turkish: yoksul
  • Armenian: եօխսուլ (eōxsul)

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yoksuz”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 907

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