صرت

See also: صرب, ضرت, ضرب, and ض ر ب

Arabic

Verb

صِرْتُ • (ṣirtu) (form I)

1. first-person singular past active of صَارَ (ṣāra)

Verb

صِرْتَ • (ṣirta) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular past active of صَارَ (ṣāra)

Verb

صِرْتِ • (ṣirti) (form I)

1. second-person feminine singular past active of صَارَ (ṣāra)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sïrt (“back, rear of the body”); cognate with Bashkir һірт, Crimean Tatar sırt, Kumyk сырт (sırt), Kyrgyz сырт (sırt), Southern Altai сырт (sïrt), Tatar sırt and Uzbek sirt.

Noun

صرت • (sırt)

1. back, the rear of the body, especially its upper part

   Synonyms: آرد (ard), آرقه (arka), پشت (püşt), ظهر (zahr)

2. the ridge of a beast's back, especially the part covered by the saddle
3. the main ridge of a mountain or mountain chain
4. (by extension) the back part of an object, such as a knife or sword
5. the fur from the middle strip along the back of a beast's skin

Derived terms

• بالق صرتی (balık sırtı, “back of a fish”)
• صرتارمق (sırtarmak, “to set up one's back”)
• صرتلامق (sırtlamak, “to take to one's back”)
• صرتلانمق (sırtlanmak, “to become a back or ridge”)
• صرتماج (sırtmac, “top of the back”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: sırt
  • → Armenian: սըրթ (sərtʻ)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sırt”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4216
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صرت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 759
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Dorsum”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 432
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صرت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2949
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sırt”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صرت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1173