amcık
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]By surface analysis, am (“pussy”) + -cık (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]amcık (definite accusative amcığı, plural amcıklar)
- (slang, vulgar) cunt
- Bazen bu dünyada görmek isteyeceğin son şey bir amcık olur.
- Sometimes, seeing a cunt is the last thing you want in the world.
- swear word used to show anger
- Mızmızlanma amcık! (colloquial speech)
- Stop whining! (said with ennui)
- pussy, chickenshit (a man, whose behaviour is perceived as cowardly)
- Amcık kardeşin gelmedi, seni mi gönderdi?
- Your chickenshit brother sent you instead?
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | amcık | amcıklar |
| definite accusative | amcığı | amcıkları |
| dative | amcığa | amcıklara |
| locative | amcıkta | amcıklarda |
| ablative | amcıktan | amcıklardan |
| genitive | amcığın | amcıkların |
Descendants
[edit]- →? Armenian: մամուխիկ (mamuxik) (calque)
Further reading
[edit]- Aktunç, Hulki (1998), “amcık”, in Türkçenin büyük argo sözlüğü (tanıklarıyla) [Great Dictionary of Turkish Argot (with Attestations)] (in Turkish), Istanbul: YKY, page 37b
- Bläsing, Uwe (2019), “Die armenischen Pflanzennamen in Peter Simon Pallas’ Flora Rossica. Eine Studie zu Etymologie und sprachlicher Interaktion”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15) (in German), Leuven: Peeters, page 10