اوقه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

وقیه (vakiye)

Etymology

Uncertain, sometimes said to be from Arabic أُوقِيَّة (ʔūqiyya) or وُقِيَّة (wuqiyya) while this is a considerably smaller weight.

Noun

اوقه • (okka)

a kilogram
an oka, a former Turkish unit of weight, usually a little more than a kilogram

Descendants

Turkish: okka
→ Albanian: okë
→ Armenian: օխա (ōxa), օխկա (ōxka)
→ Bulgarian: ока́ (oká)
→ French: oque
- → Italian: oca
  - → English: oka, oke, okka, oke
→ Greek: οκά (oká)
→ Macedonian: ока (oka)
→ Romanian: oca
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: о̀ка

Latin script: òka
→ Ukrainian: о́ко (óko)

References

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوقه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 261
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوقیه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 261
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “وقیه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2147

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