آرالق

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

From آرَا (ara).

Noun

آرَالُقْ (araluq)

1. gap, room, space, interval

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: aralıq
• Gagauz: aralık
• Ottoman Turkish: آرالق (aralık)
  • Turkish: aralık
  • → Armenian: արալըխ (araləx), արալըղ (araləġ)
  • → Greek: αραλίκι (aralíki)
  • → Laz: არალუღი (araluği)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: aràluk / ара̀лук

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish آرَالُقْ (araluq, “gap, space, interval”); cognate with Azerbaijani aralıq and Gagauz aralık. Equivalent to آرا (ara, “gap, space, interval”) +‎ ـلق (-lık, -luk, “-ness, -hood”).

Noun

آرالق • (aralık) (definite accusative آرالغی (aralığı), plural آرالقلر (aralıklar))

1. space of place, gap, opening, room between two or more things, an interval between two or more points

   Synonyms: آرا (ara), بوشلق (boşluk), خلال (hilal), مابین (mabeyin), مسافه (mesafe)

2. space of time, an interval or pause between two or more events, a length of time marked off by two instants

   Synonyms: آرا (ara), فاصله (fasıla), وقت (vakt)

3. chink, crevice, fissure, crack, any long, narrow opening made by breaking or splitting, as in a rock or in a wall

   Synonyms: چاتلاق (çatlak), یارق (yarık)

4. blank, void, an empty or vacant space, especially one in a writing or on a piece of paper which one must fill in
5. interruption, hiatus, recess, break, moratorium, a temporary stoppage of an activity, a cessation of something

   Synonym: تنفس (teneffüs)

6. corridor, hallway, passageway, gangway, a narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building

   Synonyms: دهلیز (dehliz), قوریدور (koridor)

7. December, the twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding January

   Synonym: كانون اول (kanun-ı evvel)

Derived terms

• آرالق آرالق (aralık aralık, “from time to time”)
• آرالق ویرمك (aralık vermek, “to interrupt”)
• آرالقده (aralıkda, “sometimes, often”)
• اول آرالق (ol aralık, “at that time, then”)
• بر آرالق (bir aralık, “once upon a time”)
• بو آرالق (bu aralık, “at this time, then”)

Descendants

• Turkish: aralık
• → Armenian: արալըխ (araləx), արալըղ (araləġ)
• → Greek: αραλίκι (aralíki)
• → Laz: არალუღი (araluği)
• → Serbo-Croatian: aràluk / ара̀лук

Proper noun

Aralık district

آرالق • (aralık)

1. Aralık (a town and district in Iğdır province, Turkey)

   Synonym: باشكند (başkend) (historical)

Descendants

• Turkish: Aralık

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آرا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 29
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “aralık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 277
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آرالق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 20a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آرالق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 12
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Intervallum”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 852
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آرالق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 128
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Aralık”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آرالق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 58
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Aralık”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[6], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 43