сасық

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic ساسىق
Cyrillic сасық
Latin sasyq

Etymology

From *sasïq (malodorous, having a bad smell), from Proto-Turkic *sasï- (to smell bad). Analyzable as сасу (sasu) +‎ (-q). Sense 2 is likely a semantic loan from Classical Persian گنده (gandā, stinky, bedbug).[1]

Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (sasïγ, rancid); Bashkir һаҫыҡ (haśıq), Kyrgyz сасык (sasık), Kumyk сасыкъ (sasıq, bad smell), Uzbek sassiq, Uyghur سېسىق (sësiq, having a bad smell).

Adjective

сасық • (sasyq)

  1. stinking, smelly, malodorous
  2. (dialectal, Oral, Semey) bug, bedbug

References

  1. ^ Axmetʹjanov, R. G. (2015), “сасық”, in Татар теленең этимологик сүзлеге / Этимологический словарь татарского языка [Tatar etymological dictionary] (in Tatar), Kazan: Magarif-Vakyt, →ISBN