یلدرم
Ottoman Turkish
editAlternative forms
edit- یلدریم (yıldırım)
- եըլտըրըմ (yıldırım) — Armeno-Turkish
Etymology
editFrom Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (yıldırım, ıldırım), itself from Proto-Turkic *yaltïrïm (“lightning”), from Proto-Turkic *yaltïr- (“to flash, blaze”), the same root of یلدرامق (yıldıramak, “to flash, gleam, glitter”).[1] Cognate with Azerbaijani ildırım, Kipchak یولدوروم (yuldurum) and Turkmen ýyldyrym.
Noun
editیلدرم • (yıldırım)
- thunderbolt, lightning, a discharge of electricity within a cloud
Derived terms
edit- یلدرم دمیری (yıldırım demiri, “thunderstone”)
- یلدرم چارپمق (yıldırım çarpmak, “to strike”)
- یلدرم گبی (yıldırım gibi, “swift as a thunderbolt”)
Related terms
edit- یلدرامق (yıldıramak, “to flash, gleam, glitter”)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jal-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Further reading
edit- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yıldırım1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5320
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یلدرم”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 510a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یلدریم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1356
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fulgur”, 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 627
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یلدرم”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 5601
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yıldırım”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یلدرم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2208