بوجك
Ottoman Turkish
بوجكلر
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bȫgček (“insect”), a diminutive of *bȫg (“camel spider”). Cognate with Azerbaijani böcək, Bashkir бөжәк (böjək), Crimean Tatar böcek, Kazakh бөжек (böjek) and Turkmen möjek.
Noun
بوجك • (böcek)
- insect, any arthropod in the Insecta class characterized by six legs
- Synonym: حشره (haşere)
- (colloquial) insect, bug, any small arthropod similar to an insect
- spiny lobster, rock lobster, any crustacean in the family Palinuridae
- (formerly) member of the imperial secret police organization, composed of former thieves and pickpockets
Derived terms
- آتش بوجكی (ateş böceği, “firefly”)
- آغستوس بوجكی (ağustos böceği, “cicada”)
- ایپك بوجكی (ipek böceği, “silkworm”)
- بوجك باشی (böcek başı, “chief of the secret police organization”)
- بوجك گبی (böcek gibi, “insect-like”)
- بوجكلنمك (böceklenmek, “to become infested by insects”)
- بوجكلی (böcekli, “full of insects”)
- بوق بوجكی (bok böceği, “dung beetle”)
- تسبیح بوجكی (tesbih böceği, “woodlouse”)
- حمام بوجكی (hamam böceği, “cockroach”)
- سوموكلو بوجك (sümüklü böcek, “snail, slug”)
- قامش بوجكی (kamış böceği, “leaf beetle”)
- قفتان بوجكی (kaftan böceği, “ladybird”)
- مازو بوجكی (mazı böceği, “gall wasp”)
- مایس بوجكی (mayıs böceği, “cockchafer”)
- پاپوج بوجكی (pabuc böceği, “cricket”)
- یلدز بوجكی (yıldız böceği, “glowworm”)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “böcek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 670
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بوجك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 128b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوجك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 280
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Insectum”, 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 823
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوجك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 910
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “böcek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوجك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 392
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