aşağı

Etymology
From, the dative form of *aşaq, as in 🇨🇬, ultimately from the same etymon as aşmaq: +.

Possibly formed as an adjective from with the sense "lower, the lower one; low" analogically to  and later reinterpreted as directional adverb itself. The original form is now considered colloquial or dialectal and proscribed from usage in writing; as such, it is not found in the standard Azerbaijani dictionaries, such as Azərbaycan dilinin izahlı lüğəti or in Azerbaijani-Russian dictionaries. This is probably due to the fact that the noun *aşaq did not make it into Azerbaijani, so is not perceived as a dative case of any noun, but rather as a corruption of. The latter must be a new dative case form that has been formed with aşağı as the base. Compare also the note on 🇨🇬 as a form of 🇨🇬 "used by educated people" in Meninski (1680).

The paradigm of directional/spatial adverbs of height in Azerbaijani must have undergone a morpho-semantic leveling so that senses of /  and their derived forms almost completely mirror one another:


 * 'upwards' (adv.); attested first.
 * → upper; high (adj); upper part (noun)
 * → new nominal derivations by means of case inflection:, etc.
 * 'downwards' (adv.); attested first.
 * → (analogically with yuxarı)  'lower'; 'low' (adj);
 * → (analogically with yuxarı) starts being used as a directional adverb 'downwards' along with and as the noun 'lower part';
 * → new nominal derivations by means of case inflection: ; etc.
 * → becomes superfluous in the paradigm, as no equivalent *yuxara exist. It therefore becomes increasingly proscribed.

The formation of from  as a paradigmatic counterpart of  may have been facilitated by the need for another, neutral concept for 'low, not high' in view of the development of a negative figurative sense in.

Compare also reshaping of 🇨🇬 to  under the analogical influence of  in Anatolian dialects.

Adverb

 * 1) down, downwards, downstairs
 * 2) lower, below, lower down
 * 3) less than, shorter than
 * 1) lower, below, lower down
 * 2) less than, shorter than

Adjective

 * 1) lower
 * 2) more towards the bottom than the middle of an object
 * 3)  lower; situated on lower ground
 * 4)  lower
 * 5) low
 * 6) deep
 * 1)  lower
 * 2) low
 * 3) deep
 * 1) low
 * 2) deep
 * 1) low
 * 2) deep
 * 1) deep
 * 1) deep
 * 1) deep
 * 1) deep
 * 1) deep
 * 1) deep
 * 1) deep
 * 1) deep

Noun

 * 1) lower part
 * 2)  lower prise, discount
 * 1)  lower prise, discount

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) down, downwards

Adjective

 * 1) lower

Etymology
From 🇨🇬. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) lower, bottom, under

Etymology
From, the dative form of , as in 🇨🇬, ultimately from the same etymon as aşmak:.

Noun

 * 1) lower part
 * 2) lower one
 * 1) lower one

Adjective

 * 1) lower
 * 2) inferior

Adverb

 * 1) down, downwards (direction)