اوتو

Ottoman Turkish

اوتو

Alternative forms

• اوتی (ütü)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ütüg (“flatiron”), probably from *üt- (“to burn, singe”); cognate with Azerbaijani ütü, Bashkir үтек (ütek), Kazakh үтік (ütık), Kyrgyz үтүк (ütük), Tatar үтүк (ütük), Turkmen ütük and the borrowed Russian утюг (utjug).

Noun

اوتو • (ütü)

1. clothes iron, flatiron, a hand-held tool used to smooth out wrinkles in clothes

Derived terms

• اوتوجی (ütücü, “ironer”)
• اوتوسز (ütüsüz, “unironed”)
• اوتولتمك (ütületmek, “to make or let be ironed”)
• اوتولمك (ütülemek, “to iron, press”)
• اوتولنمك (ütülenmek, “to be ironed”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: ütü
• → Albanian: ujti
• → Armenian: իւթիւ (iwtʻiw), ութու (utʻu)
• → Bulgarian: юти́я (jutíja)
• → Georgian: უთო (uto)
• → Ladino: uti

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ütü”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5066
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اوتو”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 75b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوتو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 173
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Calamistrum”, 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 134
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوتو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 487
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ütü”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوتو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 236