بیراق

See also: بىراق and یپراق

Ottoman Turkish

بیراق

Alternative forms

• بایراق (bayrak), بیرق (bayrak)
• պայրագ (bayrak) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *badrak (“banner, flag”); cognate with Azerbaijani bayraq, Bashkir байраҡ (bayraq), Kazakh байрақ (bairaq), Kyrgyz байрак (bayrak), Tatar bayraq, Turkmen baýdak, Uyghur بايرىق (bayriq) and Uzbek bayroq.

Noun

بیراق • (bayrak)

1. flag, banner, standard, ensign, especially foreign flags

   Synonyms: رایت (rayet), سنجاق (sancak), علم (ʿalem), لوا (liva)

Derived terms

• بیراقدار (bayrakdar, “flag-bearer”)
• بیراقلق (bayraklık, “bunting”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: bayrak
• → Albanian: bajrak
• → Arabic: بَيْرَق (bayraq)
  • → Tigre: ቤረቅ (beräḳ)
• → Armenian: պայրախ (payrax), պարյախ (paryax), բայրաղ (bayraġ)
• → Bulgarian: байра́к (bajrák)
• → Georgian: ბაირაღი (bairaɣi)
  • → Mingrelian: ბაირაღი (bairaɣi)
  • → Svan: ბა̈ჲრა̈ხ (bäyräx)
• → Greek: μπαϊράκι (baïráki)
• → Ladino: באייראק (bayrak)
• → Macedonian: бајрак (bajrak)
• → Northern Kurdish: bayrax, bayraq, bêraq, bêrax
• → Persian: بیرق (beyraq)
• → Romanian: bairac
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ба̀рја̄к

  Latin script: bàrjāk

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bayrak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 512
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بیراق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 138b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بیراق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 301
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vexillum”, 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 1750
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بیراق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 981
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bayrak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بیراق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 419