فورطنه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

فرطونه (furtuna, fırtına)

Etymology

From Venetan fortuna, from Latin fortūna (“misfortune”). Possibly the word passed through Greek φουρτούνα (fourtoúna), which appears some decades earlier in the written record, but Kahane et al. consider the word to be a direct borrowing from Venetan. Compare Italian fortunale (“storm surge”).

Noun

فورطنه • (furtuna or fırtına)

squall, tempest, a storm with severe winds
Synonym: بورا (bora)

Derived terms

فورطنه‌لی (fırtınalı, “stormy”)

Descendants

Turkish: fırtına
→ Armenian: ֆուռթունա (fuṙtʻuna), ֆըռթընա (fəṙtʻəna), ֆըշտընա (fəštəna), ֆրթնա (frtʻna)
→ Azerbaijani: fırtına

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “fırtına”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1581
Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 305, page 225
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فورطنه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 913
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tempestas”, 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 1655
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “fırtına”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فورطنه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1400