oturak
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اوتوراق (oturaḳ, “taking a rest, the place of a halt, a permanent residence, any seat, the part on which a person or item sits, bottom”)[1], from Ottoman Turkish اوتورمق (oturmaḳ, “to sit, to incubate, to live, to remain in a place, to ascend the throne, to go ashore”), from Old Turkic 𐰆𐰞𐰺 (ul¹r¹), from Proto-Turkic *oltur- or Proto-Turkic *olur- (“to sit”)[2][3], morphologically otur- + -ak. Cognates with Albanian oturak, Azerbaijani oturaq, Kyrgyz отургуч (oturguç), Turkmen oturgyç.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
oturak (definite accusative oturağı, plural oturaklar)
- A place or thing meant for sitting.
- A low stool, often without a back or armrest.
- The base of a thing; bottom, foot.
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890), “اوتوراق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 237
- ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*ol-ur-, *ol(u)-tur-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “oturak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading edit
- oturak in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “oturak¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3648