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UCÛBE: freak, weird EN [1][2]  (ﺍﻋﺠﻮﺑﻪ) i. (FromAR ‘aceb “şaşmak”tan u‘cūbe)  uˁcūba(t) اعجوبة “acayiplik, çok tuhaf şey, mucize” sözcüğünden alıntıdır. Bu sözcük Arapça ˁacīb “tuhaf” sözcüğünün fuˁūla(t) vezninde masdarıdır.

Daha fazla bilgi için acep maddesine bakınız.

[anonim, Tezkiretü'l-Evliya terc., 1341] fütüvvet ve mürüvvet içinde uˁcūbe-i cihān-ıdı

Çok acâyip, çok garip olan, görünüşü şaşkınlık veren kimse veya şey, acîbe: Yalnız şu kadar biliyorum ki (…) ortaya ağlanacak bir ucûbe çıkmıştı (Hâlit Z. Uşaklıgil). Büyük Yunanistan diye bir ucûbeyi fikirlere sokmaya çalıştılar (Yahyâ Kemal). Solun bünyesinde mevcut zorlamaya bir de bu zorâkîlik binince bizim sol bir ucûbe olup çıkmıştır (Cemil Meriç’ten).

[1] freak (n.1) 1560s, "sudden and apparently causeless turn of mind," of unknown origin. Perhaps it is from a dialectal survival of a word related to Middle English friken "to move nimbly or briskly," from Old English frician "to dance" [OED, Barnhart]. There is a freking attested in mid-15c., apparently meaning "capricious behavior, whims." Or perhaps from Middle English frek "eager, zealous, bold, brave, fierce" (see freak (n.2)).

The sense of "capricious notion" (1560s) and that of "unusual thing, fancy" (1784) preceded that of "abnormally developed individual or production" (first attested in freak of nature, 1839, which later was popular in variety show advertisements for bearded ladies, albinos, etc.; compare Latin lusus naturæ, which was used in English from 1660s). As "drug user" (usually appended to the name of the drug) it attested by 1945. The sense in health freak, ecology freak, etc. is attested from 1908 (originally Kodak freak "a camera buff"). Freak show is attested from 1887.

[2] weird (adj.) c. 1400, "having power to control fate," from wierd (n.), from Old English wyrd "fate, chance, fortune; destiny; the Fates," literally "that which comes," from Proto-Germanic *wurthiz (source also of Old Saxon wurd, Old High German wurt "fate," Old Norse urðr "fate, one of the three Norns"), from PIE *wert- "to turn, to wind," (source also of German werden, Old English weorðan "to become"), from root *wer- (2) "to turn, bend." For sense development from "turning" to "becoming," compare phrase turn into "become."

The sense "uncanny, supernatural" developed from Middle English use of weird sisters for the three fates or Norns (in Germanic mythology), the goddesses who controlled human destiny. They were portrayed as odd or frightening in appearance, as in "Macbeth" (and especially in 18th and 19th century productions of it), which led to the adjectival meaning "odd-looking, uncanny" (1815); "odd, strange, disturbingly different" (1820). Related: Weirdly; weirdness.