شقا
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- شاقه (şaka)
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic شَقَاء (šaqāʔ, “misery, wretchedness”); the meaning "joke, prank" may be an ironic derivation from the Arabic word.
Noun
شقا • (şaka)
Derived terms
- ال شقا (el şaka, “practical joke”)
- شقا ایتمك (şaka etmek, “to jest, to play jokes”)
- شقاجی (şakacı, “joker, jester”)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şaka1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4418
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “شقا”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 288a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شقا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 730
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Petulantia”, 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 1295
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شقا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2832
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şaka”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شقا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1130
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