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)
- (in general) fasting, abstinence or mortification for religious reasons, especially abstinence from food
- Synonym: صوم (savm)
- (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, Vienna: F. Beck, page 79a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوروج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, 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, 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, Vienna, column 508
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “oruç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوروج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 248
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