aç

Meaning

Noun

1. (archaic) hunger
2. hungry person

Adj

1. hungry, unfed
2. greedy, covetous, insatiable

Adv

hungrily, in a hungry state

Verb

second-person singular imperative of açmak

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ɑt͡ʃ]

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish آج (ac, “hungry”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (ac, “hungry”), from Proto-Turkic *āç, *ạ̄č (“hunger”).
cognates
Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰀𐰲 (ač /⁠aç⁠/, “hungry”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (aç, “hungry”), Karakhanid [script needed] (āç, “hungry”), Azerbaijani ac (“hungry”), Bashkir ас (as, “hungry”), Chuvash выҫӑ (vyś̬ă, “hunger, hungry”), Kazakh аш (aş, “hunger”), Khakas ас (as, “hunger, hungry”), Kipchak [script needed] (aç, “hungry”), Kyrgyz ач (ac, “hungry”), Southern Altai ач (ač, “hunger”), Turkmen āç (“hungry”), Tuvan аш (aş, “hunger, hungry”), Uyghur ئاچ (ach, “hungry”), Uzbek och (“hungry”), Yakut аас (aas, “hunger”).

Sentences

Hemen kapıyı aç !

Open the door now!

Aç gezmekten, tok ölmek yeğdir.

It is better to die full than to travel hungry.