اوروج

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Vulgarized form of Persian روزه (ruze, “fasting”); compare other Turkic borrowings, like Azerbaijani oruc, Kazakh ораза (oraza), Kyrgyz орозо (orozo), Tatar ураза (uraza) and Uzbek roʻza.

Noun

اوروج • (oruc)

1. (in general) fasting, abstinence or mortification for religious reasons, especially abstinence from food

   Synonym: صوم (savm)

2. (specifically) sawm, saum, the ritual practice of fasting and the third of the five pillars of Islam

   Synonym: صوم (savm)

Derived terms

• اوروج آچمق (oruc açmak, “to break the fast”)
• اوروج بوزمق (oruc bozmak, “to break the fast”)
• اوروج طوتمق (oruc tutmak, “to observe the fast”)
• اوروجسز (orucsuz, “that's not keeping the fast”)
• اوروجلو (oruclu, “keeping the fast”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: oruç

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “oruç”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3639
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اوروج”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 79a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوروج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 184
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Jejunium”, 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 723
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوروج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 508
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “oruç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوروج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 248