جاجیك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly borrowed from Iranian, compare Classical Persian ژاژ (žāž, “ziziphora; wild thyme”), Northern Kurdish jaj (“an edible herb, caraway”). Note also Armenian ժաժիկ (žažik, “a cheese-like substance”).

Noun

جاجیگ or جاجیك • (cacıg or cacık)

1. a type of edible herb
2. an herb salad with yogurt, tzatziki

Descendants

• Turkish: cacık
• → Armenian: ճաճըխ (čačəx), ջաջըխ (ǰaǰəx), ջաջխ (ǰaǰx), ջաջըղ (ǰaǰəġ)
• → Azerbaijani: cacıq
• → Greek: τζατζίκι (tzatzíki) (see there for further descendants)
• → Iraqi Arabic: جاجيك (jajīk)
• → Lishán Didán: žaži, ז׳אז׳י, ז׳ז׳י, jaji, ג׳אג׳י, ג׳ג׳י
• → Lishana Deni: גׄאגׄיכ (jājik), ז׳ז׳יכ (žažik)
• → Ladino: djadjik
• → Northern Kurdish: cacix (perhaps a reborrowing)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cacık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 739a
• Eren, Hasan (1999) “cacık”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 67a