آرال

Ottoman Turkish

آرال

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *aral (“island”). Compare other Turkic cognates like Kazakh арал (aral), Kyrgyz арал (aral), Uyghur ئارال (aral), Uzbek orol and Yakut арыы (arıı), all deriving from the same root.

Noun

آرال • (aral)

1. archipelago, a group, chain, cluster, or collection of islands usually found in large amounts of water

Descendants

• Turkish: aral

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “makara”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3026
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آرال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 11
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آرال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 58