آری

See also: اري, أري, and أرى

Ottoman Turkish

آری

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ārï (“wasp, bee”); cognate with Azerbaijani arı, Chuvash тӗкӗлтура (tĕk̬ĕlt̬ura), Kazakh ара (ara), Kyrgyz аары (aarı), Turkmen ary, Tuvan ары (arı), Uyghur ھەرە (here), Uzbek ari and Yakut ыҥырыа (ıñırıa).

Noun

آری • (arı) (definite accusative آریی (arıyı), plural آریلر (arılar))

1. bee, any flying insect of the family Apidae known for collecting pollen and producing wax and honey

   Near-synonym: زنبور (zenbur)

Derived terms

• آری بكی (arı beği, “queen bee”)
• آری دیكنی (arı dikeni, “stinger”)
• آری سوریسی (arı sürüsü, “swarm of bees”)
• آری قوشی (arı kuşu, “bee-eater”)
• آری قوغانی (arı koğanı, “beehive”)
• آریلق (arılık, “beehive”)
• اشك آریسی (eşek arısı, “hornet”)
• اوغل آریسی (oğul arısı, “white honey”)
• بر آوج آری كبی اولمق (bir avuc arı gibi olmak, “to become furious”, literally “to become like a handful of bees”)
• یابان آریسی (yaban arısı, “wasp”)

Descendants

• Turkish: arı
• → Armenian: առը (aṙə)

Further reading

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• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 41
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “arı2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 285
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آری”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 25a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 15
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Apis”, 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 70
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آری”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 151
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “arı1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 75

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *arïɣ (“clean, pure”), from *arï- (“clean, pure, to be clean; to clean, purify”) + *-ïg. Cognate with Azerbaijani arı, Kazakh ару (aru), Kyrgyz аруу (aruu), Southern Altai ару (aru), Tuvan арыг (arıg), Uzbek ori' and Yakut ыраас (ıraas).

Adjective

آری • (arı)

1. clean, pure, pristine, immaculate, spotless, unsullied, free of flaws, blemishes, or imperfections

   Synonyms: پاك (pak), تمیز (temiz), خالص (halis), صفی (safi)

Related terms

• آریمق (arımak, “to become clean or pure”)

Descendants

• Turkish: arı

Further reading

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• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 41
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “arı1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 285
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آری”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[6], Vienna: F. Beck, page 25a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[7], Constantinople: Mihran, page 15
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Purus”, 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^[8], Vienna, column 1410
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آری”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[9], Vienna, column 152
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “arı2”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[10], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 75

Persian

Etymology

Derived from Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾywl /⁠ēwar⁠/, “certainly, assuredly”), from Old Persian [script needed] (adi-var, “in truth, indeed”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.ɾeː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɑ́ː.ɾeː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɑ́ː.ɾeː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑ́ː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔ́ː.ɾeː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɒ́ː.ɹiː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɔ́.ɾe]

Readings
Classical reading?	ārē
Dari reading?	ārē
Iranian reading?	âri
Tajik reading?	ore

• Audio (Iran):

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Adverb

Dari	آری
Iranian Persian	آره
Tajik	оре

آری • (âri or ârê)

1. (Dari or Iran literary, dated) yes

   Synonym: آه (āh)

Related terms

• بلی (balē, “yes”) (Dari, Classical)
• آه (āh, “yeah”) (colloquial Dari)
• آره (âre) (Modern Iranian Spelling)
• بله (bale, “yes”) (Iran)

Descendants

• Urdu: آرے (āre)