İshak

See also: Ishak

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اسحاق (İshâk), from Arabic إِسْحَاق (ʔisḥāq), from Biblical Hebrew יִצְחָק (yiṣḥāq).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /isˈhak/

Proper noun

İshak

  1. (biblical, Islam) Isaac
  2. a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Isaac

Coordinate terms

Islamic prophetsedit

Noun

İshak (definite accusative İshakı, plural İshaklar)

  1. an owl; in particular the short-eared owl
    • 1948, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Nur Baba, page 56:
      […] bir İshakın kesin, muttarıt hıçkırıklarını dinledi.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

  • Robert Avery et al., editors (2013), “İshak”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “İshak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2215
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