اشك

اُشْكُ • (ušku) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of شَكَا (šakā)

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *eĺčgek (“donkey”); cognate with Azerbaijani eşşək, Bashkir ишәк (işək), Chuvash ашак (aš̬ak), Kazakh есек (esek), Kyrgyz эшек (eşek), Tatar ишәк (işäk), Turkmen eşek, Uyghur ئىشەق (isheq) and Uzbek eshak.

اشك • (eşek)

1. donkey, ass (Equus asinus)

   Synonyms: حمار (himar), خر (har), مركب (merkeb)

2. (figuratively) silly, stupid, perverse man

• Turkish: eşek
• Gagauz: yeşek
• → Armenian: էշեկ (ēšek)
• → Bulgarian: ешѐк (ešèk)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ѐшек

  Latin script: èšek

• →? Sicilian: sceccu

Borrowed from Persian اشک (ašk).

اشك • (eşk)

1. tear, eyewater

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “eşek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1496
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اشك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 98
• Kreutel, Richard Franz (1965) “اشك”, in Osmanisch-türkische Chrestomathie (Porta linguarum orientalium: Neue Serie; 7) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 180b
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Asinus”, 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 90
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اشك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 241
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “eşek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اشك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 122