قویروقلو یلدز

Ottoman Turkish

قویروقلو یلدز

Etymology

Calque of Arabic مذنب (“comet”, literally “long-tailed”) or Persian اختر دنباله‌دار (“comet”, literally “tailed star”); by surface analysis, from قویروقلو (kuyruklu, “tailed”) + یلدز (yıldız, “star”).

Noun

قویروقلو یلدز • (kuyruklu yıldız) (plural قویروقلو یلدزلر)

1. comet, a small celestial body which produces a visible tail consisting mainly of ice, dust and particles or rock

Descendants

• Turkish: kuyruklu yıldız

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kuyruklu yıldız”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2875
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قویروقلو یلدز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1356
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cometa”, 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 208
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قویروقلو یلدز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 5602
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قویروقلو یلدز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2208