مرتع

Arabic

Etymology

Noun of place from the root ر ت ع (r-t-ʕ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mar.taʕ/

Noun

مَرْتَع • (martaʕ) m (plural مَرَاتِع (marātiʕ))

1. grassland, pasture

Declension

Declension of noun مَرْتَع (martaʕ)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَرْتَع martaʕ	الْمَرْتَع al-martaʕ	مَرْتَع martaʕ
Nominative	مَرْتَعٌ martaʕun	الْمَرْتَعُ al-martaʕu	مَرْتَعُ martaʕu
Accusative	مَرْتَعًا martaʕan	الْمَرْتَعَ al-martaʕa	مَرْتَعَ martaʕa
Genitive	مَرْتَعٍ martaʕin	الْمَرْتَعِ al-martaʕi	مَرْتَعِ martaʕi
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَرْتَعَيْن martaʕayn	الْمَرْتَعَيْن al-martaʕayn	مَرْتَعَيْ martaʕay
Nominative	مَرْتَعَانِ martaʕāni	الْمَرْتَعَانِ al-martaʕāni	مَرْتَعَا martaʕā
Accusative	مَرْتَعَيْنِ martaʕayni	الْمَرْتَعَيْنِ al-martaʕayni	مَرْتَعَيْ martaʕay
Genitive	مَرْتَعَيْنِ martaʕayni	الْمَرْتَعَيْنِ al-martaʕayni	مَرْتَعَيْ martaʕay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَرَاتِع marātiʕ	الْمَرَاتِع al-marātiʕ	مَرَاتِع marātiʕ
Nominative	مَرَاتِعُ marātiʕu	الْمَرَاتِعُ al-marātiʕu	مَرَاتِعُ marātiʕu
Accusative	مَرَاتِعَ marātiʕa	الْمَرَاتِعَ al-marātiʕa	مَرَاتِعَ marātiʕa
Genitive	مَرَاتِعَ marātiʕa	الْمَرَاتِعِ al-marātiʕi	مَرَاتِعِ marātiʕi

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَرْتَع (martaʕ, “pasture; fertile ground”), from رَتَعَ (rataʕa).

Noun

مرتع • (mertaʿ) (plural مراتع)

1. pasture, an open field on which livestock is kept for feeding

   Synonym: اوتلق (otlak)

Descendants

• Turkish: merta

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “merta”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3158
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مرتع”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1146
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pratum”, 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 1355
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مرتع”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4556
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مرتع”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1806
• Wehr, Hans (1960) “رتع”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz