زردوا

Arabic

Verb

زردوا (form I)

1. زَرَدُوا (zaradū) /za.ra.duː/: third-person masculine plural past active of زَرَدَ (zarada)
2. زُرِدُوا (zuridū) /zu.ri.duː/: third-person masculine plural past passive of زَرَدَ (zarada)

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• زرداوه (zerdave)

Etymology

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Noun

زردوا • (zerdeva)

1. pine marten, Martes martes (animal and its fur)

Descendants

• Turkish: zerdeva
• → Armenian: զերտեւա (zertewa), զերտավա (zertava), զերտա (zerta), զէրտէվա (zērtēva), զէրտէվայ (zērtēvay), զերտավայ (zertavay), զերտայ (zertay) — traditional orthography
• → Bulgarian: зерда́в (zerdáv), зерда́ва (zerdáva)
• → Greek: ζερδαβάς (zerdavás)
• → Kipchak:

  Armeno-Kipchak: զարտավա (zärdäva)

• → Laz: ზერდავა (zerdava)
• → Romanian: zerdava, zardava
• → Serbo-Croatian: zèrdāv / зѐрда̄в

Further reading

• Budagov, Lazarʹ (1869) Sravnitelʹnyj slovarʹ turecko-tatarskix narěčij [Comparative Dictionary of Turko-Tatar Dialects] (in Russian), volume I, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 605a
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zerdeva”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume V, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5458a
• Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “زرداوه”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 400b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زردوا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 643
• Kʻiwpʻēlean, Ambrosios (1883) “զէրտէվա”, in Erekʻlezuean baṙagirkʻ tačkerēn-hayerēn-gaġġierēn [Ottoman–Armenian–French Trilingual Dictionary]‎^[2], Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 130a
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زرداوه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1007