واریوس

Ottoman Turkish

واریوسلر

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek βαρειός (vareiós, “heavy thing, heavy hammer”), a word that has evolved from βαρύς (varýs, “heavy”).

Noun

واریوس • (varyos)

1. sledgehammer, a hammer that consists of a heavy, broad and flat block of metal attached to a handle

   Synonym: پتك (petk)

Descendants

• Turkish: balyoz, varyos, varyoz

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “varyos”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5093
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “واریوس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1299
• Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 49
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “balyoz1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “واریوس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2122