عاشق

Arabic

Etymology

Derived from the active participle of عَشِقَ (ʿašiqa, to love), from the root ع ش ق (ʿ-š-q).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʕaː.ʃiq/

Adjective

عَاشِق (ʿāšiq) (feminine عَاشِقَة (ʿāšiqa), masculine plural عَاشِقُونَ (ʿāšiqūna) or عُشَّاق (ʿuššāq), feminine plural عَاشِقَات (ʿāšiqāt))

  1. in love with, enamored of, infatuated with

Declension

Noun

عَاشِق (ʿāšiq) m (plural عَاشِقُونَ (ʿāšiqūna) or عُشَّاق (ʿuššāq), feminine عَاشِقَة (ʿāšiqa))

  1. admirer, lover, adorer

Usage notes

In many descendants the word has taken on the meaning of “ashugh, mystic bard, balladeer, or troubadour”. This sense developed in Turkic, according to Sevortjan (apud Anikin) under the influence of Armenian. According to Asatryan, the term is of Sufi origin.

Declension

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: aşiq, aşıq
  • Crimean Tatar: aşıq
  • Kipchak:
    Armeno-Kipchak: աշըխ (ašəx)
    Cuman: asuch (/*ašuq/)
  • Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: aşiq
  • Persian: عاشق ('âšeq)
    • Bashkir: ғашиҡ (ğašiq)
    • Chagatai: [script needed] (ašik)
    • Hindustani:
      Hindi: आशिक़ (āśiq)
      Urdu: عاشق
    • Kazakh: ғашық (ğaşıq)
    • Kyrgyz: ашык (aşık)
    • Ottoman Turkish: عاشق (âşıq)
      • Albanian: ashik
      • Bulgarian: аши́к (ašík)
      • English: ashik, ashiq (or from another Turkic language)
      • Georgian: აშიკი (ašiḳi)
      • Greek: ασίκης (asíkis), ασήκης (asíkis)
      • Macedonian: ашик (ašik)
      • Middle Armenian: աշըխ (ašəx), աշըղ (ašəł), աշըք (ašəkʿ)
        • Armenian: աշըխ (ašəx), աշըղ (ašəł)
      • Serbo-Croatian: àšik / а̀шик
      • Turkish: âşık
    • Tajik: ошиқ (ošiq)
      • Uzbek: oshiq
    • Turkmen: aşyk

References

  • Anikin, A. Je. (2007), ашик”, in Russkij etimologičeskij slovarʹ [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Rukopisnyje pamjatniki Drevnej Rusi, pages 353, 355
  • Asatrjan, G. S. (2013), “Parfjanskoje gōsān [Parthian gōsān]”, in Toxtasʹjev S. R., Lurʹje P. B., editors, Commentationes Iranicae. Sbornik statej k 90-letiju Vladimira Aronoviča Livšica (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Nestor-Istorija, →ISBN, page 103
  • Corriente, F. (1997), “ʿŠQ”, in A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.29), Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, page 354b
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), عاشق”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 132
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), عاشق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2054
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), aşık1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Seeger, Ulrich (2015) Wörterbuch Palästinensisch-Deutsch, page 407
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), عشق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 614b

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic عَاشِق (ʿāšiq).

Pronunciation

Adjective

عاشق ('âšeq)

  1. loving
  2. amorous
  3. enamoured

Noun

عاشق ('âšeq) (plural عاشقان ('âšeqân) or عشاق ('oššaq) or عاشق‌ها ('âšeq-hâ))

  1. lover

Synonyms

  • دلداده (deldâde)
  • دلباخته (delbâxte)
  • بیدل (bidel)
  • خاطرخواه (xâterxâh)
  • شیدا (šeydâ)
  • شیفته (šifte)
  • دوستدار (dustdâr)
  • عشاق ('ošâq)
  • عاشقانه ('âšeqâne)
  • عاشق بودن ('âšeq budan)
  • عاشق شدن ('âšeq šodan)
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