اردل
Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Romanian Ardeal, itself from Hungarian Erdély (“Transylvania”), from erdő (“forest”) + elü (“region beyond”).
Proper noun
[edit]اردل • (erdel)
- Transylvania, a mountainous region in western Romania
Derived terms
[edit]- اردل كوكی (erdel kökü, “zedoary root”)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: Erdel
Further reading
[edit]- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اردل”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 22a
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Transilvania”, 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 1690
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اردل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 138
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اردل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 65
- Sezen, Tahir (2017) Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names][5], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 251