پاك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پاک (pâk, “clean, pure, holy”).

Adjective

پاك • (pak)

1. pure, clean, free of flaws or imperfections

   Synonyms: آری (arı), تمیز (temiz), خالص (halis), صفی (safi)

2. holy, sacred, morally perfect or flawless
3. used up, worn out, depleted, having nothing left

Derived terms

• پاكباز (pakbaz, “who plays without cheating”)
• پاكدامن (pakdaman, “chaste, incorrupt”)
• پاكلتمك (paklatmak, “to make or let be cleaned”)
• پاكلك (paklık, “cleanness, purity”)
• پاكلمك (paklamak, “to clean, cleanse”)
• پاكلنمك (paklanmak, “to become clean”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: pak
• → Armenian: փաք (pʻakʻ)
• → Laz: ფაღი (paği)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3754
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پاك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 314
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Purus”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1410
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پاك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 677
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پاك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 434

Uyghur

Etymology

From Persian پاک (“clean, pure, holy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pʰɑk]

Adjective

پاك • (pak)

1. clean
2. pure

Synonyms

• (clean, pure): پاكىز (pakiz)
• (very clean, very pure): پاك-پاكىز (pak-pakiz)