uşak

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اوشاق (uşak, “small, petite; child”), ultimately from Common Turkic *uvša- (“to become smaller”), compare Old Turkic [script needed] (uvšak/ušak, “small”).

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uşak (definite accusative uşağı, plural uşaklar)

1. male servant, factotum
2. (chiefly Black Sea) child, kid

   Synonym: çocuk

3. henchman, lackey

• “uşak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*uĺa-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill<