یلدرم

Ottoman Turkish

یلدرم

Alternative forms

  • یلدریم‎ (yıldırım)

Etymology

From 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

یلدرم • (yıldırım)

  1. thunderbolt, lightning, a discharge of electricity within a cloud
    Synonyms: آذرخش‎ (azerahş), برق‎ (berk), صاعقه‎ (sa'ika)

Derived terms

  • یلدرم دمیری‎ (yıldırım demiri, “thunderstone”)
  • یلدرم چارپمق‎ (yıldırım çarpmak, “to strike”)
  • یلدرم گبی‎ (yıldırım gibi, “swift as a thunderbolt”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: yıldırım
  • → Armenian: յըլտըրըմ (yəltərəm)

References

  1. 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

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