آرقه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *arka (“back”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰺‎𐰴 (r¹‎q /⁠arqa⁠/), Azerbaijani arxa, Karakhanid اَرْقا (arqa), Kazakh арқа (arqa), Kyrgyz арка (arka), Turkmen arka, Uyghur ئارقا (arqa), Uzbek orqa and Yakut арҕаа (arğaa). Further related to آرد (ard, “back”).

Noun

آرقه • (arka)

1. back, the rear of the body from the neck to the end of the spine

   Synonyms: آرد (ard), پشت (püşt), صرت (sırt), ظهر (zahr)

2. back, the side of an object which is opposite the front side

   Synonym: آرد (ard)

3. backer, a powerful friend or supporter

   Synonym: دستك (destek)

Derived terms

• آرقه‌داش (arkadaş, “comrade, companion”)
• آرقه‌لتمق (arkalatmak, “to let be taken on the back”)
• آرقه‌لق (arkalık, “backrest”)
• آرقه‌لمق (arkalamak, “to take a thing on the back”)
• آرقه‌لو (arkalı, “broad-backed”)

Descendants

• Turkish: arka
• → Armenian: արխա (arxa)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “arka”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 291
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آرقه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 23b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آرقه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 14
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Dorsum”, 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 432
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آرقه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 146
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “arka”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آرقه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 70