اورس

Ottoman Turkish

اورس

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ȫrüz (“anvil”), a development of *ȫr- (“to rise”). Compare اورگوچ (örgüç, “camel's hump”), which derives from the same root.

Noun

اورس • (örs)

1. anvil, a heavy iron block used in the blacksmithing trade

   Synonym: سندان (sindan)

Derived terms

• ال اورسی (el örsü, “portable anvil”)
• اورس كوتوكی (örs kütüğü, “anvil block”)
• كوچوك اورس (küçük örs, “small anvil”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: örs
• → Armenian: էօրս (ēōrs) — Constantinople

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “örs”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3713
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اورس”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 78a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اورس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 181
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Incus”, 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 778
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اورس”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 501
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “örs”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اورس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 245