شاشی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *siāĺig (“squinting”), a development of *siāĺ- (“to be astonished, to slander”), whence شاشمق (şaşmak, “to be astonished”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (sašï, “confused, bewildered”) and Kipchak [script needed] (šašï, “squint-eyed”).

Adjective

شاشی • (şaşı)

1. squint-eyed, cross-eyed, having both eyes oriented inward

   Synonyms: احول (ahval), كاژ (kaj), لوچ (luç)

Derived terms

• شاشیلامق (şaşılamak, “to squint”)
• شاشیلق (şaşılık, “strabismus, squint”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: şaşı
• → Armenian: շաշ (šaš), շաշի (šaši)
• → Romanian: sașiu

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şaşı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4438
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “شاشی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 283a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شاشی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 714
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Luscus”, 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 983
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شاشی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2749
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şaşı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شاشی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1109