amca

Turkish

Alternative forms
  • abca, abıca, abuca, amıca, amuca, ebice, emice

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish عموجه‎ (ʿamuca), from older آبجه‎ (abıca, abuca),[1] equivalent to Proto-Turkic *apa (“father”) + *-ča. Compare also Proto-Turkic *abučka (“uncle”).[2]

Nişanyan explains the change from /b/ to /m/ as an influence of Arabic عَمّ‎ (ʕamm).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɑmd͡ʒɑ/, [ɑm.d̠̠͡ʒɑ]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: am‧ca

Noun

amca (definite accusative amcayı, plural amcalar)

  1. paternal uncle, one's father's brother

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

See also

Further reading
  • amca in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

References
  1. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “amca”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  2. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*Abuč-ka”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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