آطه

Ottoman Turkish

آطه

Alternative forms

• آدا (ada)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ātag (“island”); cognate with Azerbaijani ada, Crimean Tatar ada, Kazakh атау (atau), Kumyk атав (ataw), Tatar атау (ataw) and Turkmen ada.

Noun

آطه • (ada) (plural آطه‌لر (adalar))

1. island, an area of land totally surrounded by water

   Synonym: جزیره (cezire)

2. peninsula, a piece of land projecting into water

Derived terms

• آطه بالغی (ada balığı, “whale”)
• آطه صوغانی (ada soğanı, “sea onion”)
• آطه طاوشانی (ada tavşanı, “rabbit”)
• آطه چایی (ada çayı, “sage”)
• آطه‌لی (adalı, “native of an island”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: ada
  • → Northern Kurdish: ada
  • → Zazaki: ada
• Gagauz: ada
• → Albanian: adë
• → Armenian: ատա (ata)
• → Crimean Tatar: ada
• → Ladino: adá
• → Laz: ადა (ada)
• → Macedonian: ада (ada)
• → Serbo-Croatian: ada
• → Ubykh: ада (ada)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ada”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 107
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “ادا”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 16a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آطه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 22
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Insula”, 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 835
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آطه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 274
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ada”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آطه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 137