قاشاغی

Ottoman Turkish

قاشاغی

Alternative forms

• قاشاغو (kaşağı), قشاغو (kaşağı)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kạĺčïgu (“currycomb, scraper”), from *kạĺčï- (“to scratch, scrape, curry”), the same root of قاشیمق (kaşımak, “to scratch, scrape”); cognate with Azerbaijani qaşov.

Noun

قاشاغی • (kaşağı)

1. scraper, an instrument with which anything is scraped

   Synonyms: راسپه (raspa), قزاغی (kazağı)

2. currycomb, a comb or brush used to groom horses

   Synonym: فرجول (fircevl)

Derived terms

• آت قاشاغیسی (at kaşağısı, “currycomb”)
• صرت قاشاغیسی (sırt kaşağısı, “tool used to scratch the back”)
• غوغا قاشاغیسی (ğavğa kaşağısı, “frivolous pretext for a quarrel”)
• قاشاغیلامق (kaşağılamak, “to scratch with an instrument, to curry”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kaşağı
• → Armenian: խաշաղի (xašaġi), կաշաղու (kašaġu)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaşağı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2462
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قاشاغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 928
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Strigilis”, 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 1604
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قاشاغو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3584
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kaşağı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قاشاغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1417