ایری

See also: آیری

Khalaj

Adjective

اَیری (əyri)

1. Arabic spelling of əyri (“crooked”)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ērig (“large, great”); cognate with Azerbaijani iri, Bashkir эре (ere), Karakhanid [script needed] (irig), Kyrgyz ири (iri), Uyghur ژىرىك (zhirik) and Uzbek yirik.

Adjective

ایری • (iri)

1. large, great, big, huge, of relatively great size or extent

   Synonyms: اولو (ulu), بیوك (büyük), قوجه (koca)

2. thickset, stout, bulky, being large in size, mass, or volume

   Synonym: یوغون (yoğun)

3. coarse, granular, grainy, composed of large particles or grains

Derived terms

• ایریجه (irice, “largish, stoutish”)
• ایریلشمك (irileşmek, “to become gradually large”)
• ایریلك (irilik, “largeness, greatness”)
• ایریلندرمك (irilendirmek, “to make or let become large”)
• ایریلنمك (irilenmek, “to become large”)
• ایریلو (irili, “containing coarse grains”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: iri

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “iri”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2203
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “ایری”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 93a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ایری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 216
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Crassus”, 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 297
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ایری”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 593
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “iri”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 295