یوقاری

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• یوقارو (yukaru)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yok-karï (“above, upwards”), a development of *yok (“high, tall, elevated”). Cognate with Azerbaijani yuxarı, Bashkir юғары (yuğarı), Crimean Tatar yuqarı, Kazakh жоғары (joğary), Kyrgyz жогору (jogoru), Uzbek yuqori and Yakut соҕуруу (soğuruu).

Adverb

یوقاری • (yukarı)

1. up, upwards, towards a higher position, closer to the sky than the ground
2. upstairs, up the stairs, on a higher floor, level, or storey of a building
3. above, higher, physically over, on top of something, or in a higher place

Adjective

یوقاری • (yukarı)

1. upper, higher, superior, situated on a higher ground, level, rank, or position

   Synonym: اوست (üst)

Derived terms

• یوقاری آلپ (yukarı alp, “Hautes-Alpes”)
• یوقاری قات (yukarı kat, “uppermost story of a house”)
• یوقاری پیرنه (yukarı pirene, “Hautes-Pyrénées”)
• یوقاریلو (yukarılı, “belonging to an upper place”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: yukarı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yukarı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5377
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یوقاری”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 514a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یوقاری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1365
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Superius”, 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 1632
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یوقاری”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5626
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yukarı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یوقاری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2216