اورامق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *or- (“to reap, mow”); cognate with Chuvash выр (vyr), Kazakh ору (oru) and Turkmen ormak.

Verb

اورامق • (oramak)

1. (transitive) to reap, to cut grass or grains with a sickle

   Synonym: اوراقلمق (oraklamak)

2. (transitive) to estimate, appraise, to calculate roughly

Related terms

• اوراق (orak, “sickle”)
• اوران (oran, “any measure of length”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: oramak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “oramak2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3626
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اورامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 180
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اورامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 243