آرناود

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• آرناؤد (arnaʼud)

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek Ἀρβανίτης (Arbanítēs, “Albanian”), from the original Ancient Greek ethnonym Ἀλβανίτης (Albanítēs) through a process of rhotacism, turning Alv- into Arv-.

Proper noun

آرناود • (arnaud, arnavud)

1. Albanian, a person from Albania or of Albanian descent

Derived terms

• آرناود بوبری (arnavud biberi, “winter savory”)
• آرناود داریسی (arnavud darısı, “Albanian millet”)
• آرناود قاریسی (arnavud karısı, “Albanian woman”)
• آرناود پنیری (arnavud peniri, “Albanian cheese”)
• آرناودجه (arnavudca, “Albanian language”)
• آرناودلق (arnavudluk, “Albania”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: Arnavut
• → Abkhaz: арнауҭ (arnawt)
• → Albanian: arnaut
• → Arabic: أَرْنَؤُد (ʔarnaʔud)
• → Armenian: առնավուտ (aṙnavut)
• → Bulgarian: арнау́т (arnaút)
• → English: Arnaut
• → Ladino: ארנאאוט (arnaut⁩)
• → Macedonian: Арнаут (Arnaut)
• → Romanian: arnăut

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “Arnavut”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 297
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آرناود”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 24b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آرناؤد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 15
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Albanus”, 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 46
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آرناود”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 152
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آرناود”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 74