یاغمور

Ottoman Turkish

یاغمور

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yagmur (“rain”) and thus related to یاغمق (yağmak, “to rain”); cognate with Azerbaijani yağmur, Bashkir ямғыр (yamğır), Chuvash ҫумӑр (śumăr), Kazakh жаңбыр (jañbyr), Kyrgyz жамгыр (jamgır), Tatar яңгыр (yañgır), Turkmen ýagmyr, Uyghur يامغۇر (yamghur) and Uzbek yomgʻir.

Noun

یاغمور • (yağmur)

1. rain, condensed water falling from a cloud

   Synonyms: باران (baran), مطر (matar)

Derived terms

• یاغمورلق (yağmurluk, “raincoat”)
• یاغمورلو (yağmurlu, “rainy”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: yağmur

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yağmur”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5158
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یاغمور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1340
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pluvia”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1310
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یاغمور”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 5546
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yağmur”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاغمور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2188