بولوت

Chagatai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bulït (“cloud”).

Noun

بولوت (bulut)

1. cloud

Descendants

• Uzbek: bulut
• Uyghur: بۇلۇت (bulut)

Ottoman Turkish

بولوت

Alternative forms

• بلوت (bulut), بولوط (bulut), بلوط (bulut)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bulït (“cloud”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰃𐱃 (b¹ul¹it¹ /⁠bulït⁠/), Azerbaijani bulud, Bashkir болот (bolot), Chuvash пӗлӗт (pĕlĕt), Kazakh бұлт (būlt), Kyrgyz булут (bulut), Turkmen bulut, Uyghur بۇلۇت (bulut), Uzbek bulut and Yakut былыт (bılıt).

Noun

بولوت • (bulut) (definite accusative بولوتی (bulutu), plural بولوتلر (bulutlar))

1. cloud, a visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air

   Synonyms: ابر (ebr), سحاب (sahab)

2. (figuratively) cloud, anything unsubstantial, a cloudy appearance

Derived terms

• بولوتسز (bulutsuz, “cloudless”)
• بولوتلانمق (bulutlanmak, “to become cloudy”)
• بولوتلندرمق (bulutlandırmak, “to make or let become cloudy”)
• بولوتلو (bulutlu, “cloudy”)

Descendants

• Turkish: bulut
• → Armenian: պուլուտ (pulut), պուլութ (pulutʻ), բուլութ (bulutʻ), Բուլութ (Bulutʻ), Բուլոթ (Bulotʻ)
• → Laz: ბულუთი (buluti)

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “պուլուտ”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 297
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bulut”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 695
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بلوت”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 126a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بولوت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 294a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Nubes”, 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 1156
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بولت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 940
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bulut”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بولوت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 410