اورتاق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• اورطاق (ortak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ortuk (“partner, associate”), probably a development from *or-, the same root of اورتا (orta, “middle”), اردو (ordu, “military camp”) and اورون (orun, “place”). Cognate with Azerbaijani ortaq, Bashkir уртаҡ (urtaq), Kazakh ортақ (ortaq), Kyrgyz орток (ortok), Uyghur ئورتاق (ortaq) and Uzbek oʻrtoq.

Noun

اورتاق • (ortak)

1. partner, associate, someone who is associated with another in a common activity

   Synonym: شریك (şerik)

Derived terms

• اورتاق اولمق (ortak olmak, “to become partner”)
• اورتاقلاشمق (ortaklaşmak, “to become partner with another”)
• اورتاقلق (ortaklık, “partnership”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: ortak
• → Albanian: ortak
• → Armenian: օրթախ (ōrtʻax)
• → Aromanian: urtác
• → Bulgarian: орта́к (orták)
• → Macedonian: ортак (ortak)
• → Serbo-Croatian: òrtāk / о̀рта̄к
  • → Romanian: ortác

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ortak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3635
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اورتاق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 77b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اورتاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 180
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Socius lucri”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1565
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اورتاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 498
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ortak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “1577. urtác”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[5], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 190
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اورتاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 243