𐰍𐰃
agı
Meaning:
silk fabric, brocade; treasure, valuable goods
Examples
Translations
German:
Seidenstoff, Brokat; Schatz, wertvolle Güter
Russian:
шёлковая ткань, парча; сокровища, ценности
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
ipək parça, zərxara; xəzinə, qiymətli mallar
Turkish (Türkiye):
ipek kumaş, brokar; hazine, değerli mallar
Bibliography 3
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Dr. Jens Wilkens (2021) Handwörterbuch des Altuigurischen | Eski Uygurcanın El Sözlüğüp. 17ap. 17a
¹agı Waren, Besitz, Habe, Güter, Schätze || mal mülk, mal, servet, hazine; Stoff, Tuch, kostbarer Stoff, Seide || kumaş, değerli kumaş, ipek agı barım ~ baram Besitz₂, Hab und Gut || mal mülk, servet₂ agı barım äd tavar Schätze₂ und Güter₂ || hazineler₂ ve mallar₂ -
Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkishp. 78a–bp. 78a–b
ağı: from xi onwards consistently translated ‘silk brocade’ and the like; earlier contexts suggest the meaning ‘treasure’, and cf. ağı:çı:, ağı:lık; ‘silk brocade’, as the main component of early Turkish treasures, may, however, have been the original meaning. N.o.a.b. The word ağ/ağı prob. used only in such phr. as ağı kurdu ‘caterpillar’ noted in Osm. xvi TTS II 9 and surviving in xx Anat. SDD 74, 76, 78, 131, 1602 prob. has nothing to do with ‘silk’ (worm); it seems to be a Sec. f. of ağu:. Cf. barçın. Türkü viii ağı: occurs 5 times in I S 5–7, II N 4–5, and several times elsewhere in the context of gifts given by the Chinese to the Turks; in I S 5, II N 4 it summarizes a list of such gifts ‘gold, silver’, and two words prob. meaning silken fabrics of some kind, so prob. means ‘treasure’; in a list of booty in T 48 sarığ altu:n ürüŋ kümüş kız koduz egri: teve: ağı: ‘yellow gold, white silver, girls, femmes soles, humped camels’ it looks more like ‘brocade’; in other occurrences it could be either, but ‘treasure’ is more probable: viii ff. Man. [gap katı]ğlanmaz ınçıp ağı bulur; yeme [ne t]örlüg ağı barım elgiŋerü kelser esirgenü kısğanu tutmaz kizlemez ‘he makes no efforts but still acquires treasures; and whatever treasures and property come into his hands he does not retain and hide them in miserliness and greed’ M III 21, 1–4 (i) (here, esp. in the Hend. ‘treasure’ must be the meaning): Uyğ. viii ff. Man. ağı baram M I 15, 4–5; III 11, 20; 13, 6–7 (i): Bud. ağı barım U II 76, 2; PP 7, 6 and 9; 9, 2; TT VI 101, 233, 266; Tiş. 19a. 4: Civ. ağı barım TT VII 34, 3: Xak. xi ağı: al-dibāc ‘silk brocade’ Kaş. I 89; (do not rejoice) altun kümüş bulnupan ağı: tava:r iḏā wacadta … fiḍḍa wa ḏahab wa dibāc ‘if you acquire gold and silver and silk brocade’ II 153, 8 (but tava:r (untranslated) suggests ‘treasure’ would be better): KB ağı çuz ağır boldı ‘silk brocades (Hend.) are valuable’ 902; açtı ağı kaznakı ‘he opened his treasury’ (and distributed many things to the poor) 1034; çığayka üledi kümüş ham ağı ‘he distributed silver and treasure (or silk brocade?) to the poor’ 1564; ağı çuz 1426, 4773, 5367: xiii(?) Tef. altun kümüş ağu (sic) barçın (‘brocade’) 39: xiv Muḥ.(?) al-tawbu’l-ibrīsami ‘silken clothing’ ağı: Rif. 167 (only): Kıp. xiv ağı: ‘a kind of silk’ (al-ḥarīr) İd. 17: Osm. xiv (when a boy grows up he must marry, and you must give him) ağı atlas at katır ‘brocade, damask, a horse, and a mule’ TTS I 7; bağışladı altun kızıl u ağı ‘he gave red gold and brocade’ II 9. -
M Räsänen, I Kecskeméti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachenp. 8ap. 8a
atü. uig. aγy ‘Güter, Besitz, Habe, Schatz’, KB. aγy ‘Kostbarkeiten, Wertsachen’, ‘freigebig’, mtü. aγy ‘Schatzhaus’, ‘Brokat’, IM. aγy ‘ibrişim giyim’, (altosm.) ‘ipek kumaş, ipekli’
