Clauson (1972)
An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish
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asığ
‘profit, advantage’, and the like; l.-w. in Mong. as aşiğ (sic, see Studies, p. 206; Kow. 59, Haltod 13); survives in NE Tuv. ajik (reborrowed fr. Mong.) and SW Osm. ası/asığ/asık ‘profit, benefit’. See Doerfer II 450. Türkü viii ff. asığı: bar edgü: ‘there is advantage in it, it is good’ IrkB 32: Uyğ. viii ff. Man.-A maŋa ol kişi asığ bolğay ‘that man will be useful to me’ M I 34, 20: asığ tusu kıltıŋız ‘you have brought advantage (Hend.)’ TT III 123; a.o. do. 105 (uluğ): Bud. Sanskrit artham ‘advantage, profit’ asığ TT VIII D.34; E.44; a:sığ do. D.18; a.o.o.; asığ tusu kıl- ‘to bring advantage, or profit, to (someone Dat.)’ is very common PP 20, 5; 34, 7, etc.; U I 25, 8; II 16, 20, and many o.o.: Civ. asığ bolur ‘it is advantageous’ TT VII 28, 36, and 45, etc.; utrugda asığ tusu yetirü kelti ‘he has come to meet you bringing you advantages’ TT I 113; do. 58 (egsü:-); in contracts in USp. asığ ‘interest (on a loan)’ is common, e.g. biz el yağıŋça asığı birle köni berürbiz ‘we promise to repay with interest at the customary rate’ 10, 7-8: xiv Chin.-Uyğ. Dict. li i ‘advantage, profit’ (Giles 6,885; 5,485) asığ tusu Ligeti 131: Xak. xi asığ al-ribḥ ‘profit, gain’ Kaş. I 64; asığ kılğu: ermes lā yanfa‘uka ‘it gives you no advantage’ I 494, 4; a.o. III 13, 7: KB asığ kolsa barça özüg yaşsızın ‘if you seek profit (or advantage) in all things without any losses’ 106; o.o. 160 (üküş), 171, 232, etc. (common): xiii(?) At. (let a man who reads this book) asığ alsu ‘get advantage from it’ 78; tavar asğı ‘the advantage of wealth’ 287; Tef. asığ ‘profit’ (also ‘a pendant’ Dev. N. fr. as-, occurring later, but first noted here) 61: (xiv Muh. rabaḥa ‘to gain, make a profit’ ası:t-, no doubt a crasis of ası: et-, Mel. 26, 7; Rif. 109): Çağ. xv ff. asığ/asık aşşı (sic?) ve fayida ‘profit, advantage’ Vel. 19 (quotns.); asığ naf‘ wa fāyida San. 40v. 14: Xwar. xiv asığ ditto Qutb 13: Kıp. xiii al-ribḥ (opposite to ‘loss’ kor) asığ Hou. 28, 2: xiv asığ (and aşlam) al-fāyida İd. 15; al-ribḥ fi’l-bi‘ wa’l-şirā ‘profit in buying and selling’ aşşı: Bul. 5, 6: xv rabaḥa (aşlamla-; in margin in later hand) aşşı eyle- Tuh. 16b. 1: Osm. xiv ff. assı, less often ası, ‘profit, advantage’; c.i.a.p. TTS I 47-8; II 60-1; III 42-3; IV 45: xviii (after Çağ. entry) ‘and in Rūmi ası’ San. 40v. 14.