آرال

Ottoman Turkish

آرال

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *aral (“island”). Compare other Turkic cognates like Kazakh арал (aral), Kyrgyz арал (aral), Turkish aral, Uyghur ئارال (aral), Uzbek orol and Yakut арыы (arıı), all deriving from the same root.

Noun

آرال • (aral)

1. archipelago, a group, chain, cluster, or collection of islands usually found in large amounts of water

Descendants

• Turkish: aral

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “makara”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3026
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آرال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 11
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آرال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 58