Arabic

Adjective

عَاشِق • ‎(ʿāšiq)

1. in love with, enamored of, infatuated with

Declension

Noun

عَاشِق • ‎(ʿāšiq) m

1. admirer, lover, adorer

Declension

Usage notes

In many descendants the word has taken on the meaning of “ashugh, mystic bard, balladeer, or troubadour”. This sense developed in Turkic, according to Sevortjan (apud Anikin) under the influence of Armenian. According to Asatryan, the term is of Sufi origin.

Related terms

• عِشْق ‎(ʿišq)

Descendants

• Azeri: aşiq, aşıq
  • Russian: аши́к ‎(ašík)
• Crimean Tatar: aşıq
• Kipchak:

  Armeno-Kipchak: աշըխ ‎(ašəx)

  Cuman: asuch ‎(/*ašuq/)

  • Armenian: աշուղ ‎(ašuł)
    • English: ashough, ashugh
    • Georgian: აშუღი ‎(ašuɣi)
    • Russian: ашу́г ‎(ašúg)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: aşiq

• Persian: عاشق ‎('âšeq)
  • Bashkir: ғашиҡ ‎(ğašiq)
  • Chagatai: [script needed] ‎(ašik)
  • Hindustani:

    Hindi: आशिक़ ‎(āśiq)

    Urdu: عاشق

  • Kazakh: ғашық ‎(ğaşıq)
  • Kyrgyz: ашык ‎(aşık)
  • Ottoman Turkish: عاشق ‎(âşıq)
    • Albanian: ashik
    • Bulgarian: аши́к ‎(ašík)
    • English: ashik, ashiq (or from another Turkic language)
    • Georgian: აშიკი ‎(ašiḳi)
    • Greek: ασίκης ‎(asíkis), ασήκης ‎(asíkis)
    • Macedonian: ашик ‎(ašik)
    • Middle Armenian: աշըխ ‎(ašəx), աշըղ ‎(ašəł), աշըք ‎(ašəkʿ)
      • Armenian: աշըխ ‎(ašəx), աշըղ ‎(ašəł)
    • Serbo-Croatian: àšik / а̀шик
    • Turkish: âşık
  • Tajik: ошиқ ‎(ošiq)
    • Uzbek: oshiq
  • Turkmen: aşyk

References

• Anikin, A. Je. (2007), “ашик”, in Russkij etimologičeskij slovarʹ [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Rukopisnyje pamjatniki Drevnej Rusi, pages 353, 355
• Asatrjan, G. S. (2013), “Parfjanskoje gōsān [Parthian gōsān]”, in Toxtasʹjev S. R., Lurʹje P. B., editors, Commentationes Iranicae. Sbornik statej k 90-letiju Vladimira Aronoviča Livšica (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Nestor-Istorija, ISBN 978-5-4469-0127-2, page 103

1. ↑ Wehr, Hans (1976), “عشق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, ISBN 0-87950-001-8, page 614b
2. ↑ Corriente, F. (1997), “ʿŠQ”, in A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.29), Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, page 354b
3. ↑ Ulrich Seeger (2015), Wörterbuch Palästinensisch-Deutsch, page 407
4. ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “aşık1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic عَاشِق ‎(ʿāšiq).

Pronunciation

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔɒːˈʃeɣ]
• (Tehrani) IPA^(key): [ɒːˈʃeɣ]

Adjective

عاشق • ‎('âšeq)

1. loving
2. amorous
3. enamoured

Noun

عاشق • ‎('âšeq) ‎(plural عاشقان ‎('âšeqân) or عشاق ‎('oššaq) or عاشق‌ها ‎('âšeq-hâ))

1. lover

Synonyms

• دلداده ‎(deldâde)
• دلباخته ‎(delbâxte)
• بیدل ‎(bidel)
• خاطرخواه ‎(xâterxâh)
• شیدا ‎(šeydâ)
• شیفته ‎(šifte)
• دوستدار ‎(dustdâr)

Related terms

• عشاق ‎('ošâq)
• عاشقانه ‎('âšeqâne)
• عاشق بودن ‎('âšeq budan)
• عاشق شدن ‎('âšeq šodan)