یاصدق

Ottoman Turkish

یاصدق

Alternative forms

  • یاصدیق (yasdık)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yạŕtuk (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)

  1. bolster, pillow, a soft cushion used to support the head in bed
    Synonym: بالش (baliş)
  2. pad, cushion, a flattened mass of anything soft used to sit or lie on
  3. fender, any cushion-like object placed along the sides of a boat to prevent damage
  4. (agriculture) seedbed, ground prepared for the planting of seeds

Derived terms

  • طوپ یاصدق (top yasdık, bed that supports a cannon)
  • یاصدق طوپراغی (yasdık toprağı, fine earth for a seedbed)
  • یاصدق غلفی (yasdık gılıfı, pillowcase)
  • یاصدقلو (yasdıklı, furnished with pillows)
  • ییلان یاصدغی (yılan yasdığı, dragonwort)

Descendants

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

Further reading

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