گورلدی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• گورلتی (gürültü)

Etymology

A development of گور (gür, “gurgling or humming sound”), a word of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Turkmen gürrüldi.

Noun

گورلدی • (gürüldü)

1. noise, various types of sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant

   Synonyms: آواز (avaz), سس (ses), صوت (savt)

2. uproar, tumult, confused and agitated noise as made by a crowd

Derived terms

• گورلدیجی (gürüldücü, “rowdy, noisy person”)
• گورلدیسز (gürüldüsüz, “noiseless, quiet”)
• گورلدیلو (gürüldülü, “noisy”)
• گوك گورلدیسی (gök gürüldüsü, “thunder”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: gürültü
• → Albanian: gjurulti
• → Aromanian: ghiurultie, ghiurultii
• → Bulgarian: гюрюлти́я (gjurjultíja)
• → Greek: γκιουρουλτί (gkiouroultí)
• → Macedonian: ѓурултија (ǵurultija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: đurūltȉja／ђурӯлти̏ја

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gürültü”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1811
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “گورلدی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 400b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “گورلدی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1050
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Rumor”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1496
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “گورلدی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4064
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gürültü”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “گورلدی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1587