آجی

Bakhtiari

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian (âbji), from Proto-Turkic *bāča. Cognate with Azerbaijani bacı.

Noun

آجی (âji)

sister

Synonyms

(sister): ددو (dedu)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *iāčïg (“bitter”); cognate with Azerbaijani acı, Bashkir асы (ası), Chuvash йӳҫӗ (jüś̬ĕ), Kazakh ащы (aşy), Kyrgyz ачуу (acuu), Turkmen ājy, Uyghur ئاچچىق (achchiq), Uzbek achchiq and Yakut аһыы (ahıı).

Adjective

آجی • (acı)

bitter, having an acrid taste, usually from a basic substance
Synonyms: تلخ (telh), مر (mürr)
(of water) brackish, salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water
(of words) bitter, reproachful, scathing, harsh, caustic, vitriolic
(of sounds) dismal, lugubrious, dreary, cheerless, gloomy

Derived terms

آجی آغاج (acı ağac, “quassia, bitterwood”)
آجی الما (acı elma, “colocynth”)
آجی بادم (acı badem, “bitter almond”)
آجی دل (acı dil, “reproach, bitter words”)
آجی سس (acı ses, “unpleasant voice”)
آجی سوز (acı söz, “bitter words”)
آجی صو (acı su, “brackish water”)
آجی مارول (acı marul, “bitter lettuce”)
آجیجه (acıca, “bitterish”)
آجیلتمق (acılatmak, “to render a thing bitter”)
آجیلق (acılık, “bitterness”)
آجیلنمق (acılanmak, “to become bitter”)

Descendants

Gagauz: acı
Turkish: acı
→ Armenian: աճի (ači) — Constantinople

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “acı1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 91
Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آجی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 10b
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 7
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Amarus”, 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 54
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 69
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “acı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 31

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