یلدز
Ottoman Turkish
یلدز
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yulduŕ (“star”); cognate with Azerbaijani ulduz, Bashkir йондоҙ (yondoð), Chuvash ҫӑлтӑр (śălt̬ăr), Kazakh жұлдыз (jūldyz), Kyrgyz жылдыз (jıldız), Tatar йолдыз (yoldız), Turkmen ýyldyz, Uyghur يۇلتۇز (yultuz) and Uzbek yulduz.
Noun
یلدز • (yıldız)
- (astronomy) star, a luminous celestial body made up of plasma
- north, the compass point directed toward the North Pole
- asterisk, the symbol *, used for various purposes
Derived terms
- آق یلدز (ak yıldız, “morning star”)
- قویروقلو یلدز (kuyruklu yıldız, “comet”)
- یلدز بوجكی (yıldız böceği, “glowworm”)
- یلدز طاشی (yıldız taşı, “aventurine”)
- یلدز قوردی (yıldız kurdu, “glowworm”)
- یلدز چیچكی (yıldız çiçeği, “dahlia”)
- یلدز یلی (yıldız yeli, “north wind”)
- یلدزلو (yıldızlı, “starred”)
Descendants
- Turkish: yıldız
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “yıldız1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5321
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “یلدز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1356
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Stella”, 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, Vienna, column 1595
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “یلدز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5602
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “yıldız”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “یلدز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2208
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