واپور

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian vapore (“steamship”).

Noun

واپور • (vapor, vapur) (definite accusative واپوری (vaporu, vapuru))

1. steamer, steamship, steamboat

Descendants

• Turkish: vapur, bapur, bafur, bapır, babır, papur, papor (dialectal)
• → Armenian: վափոր (vapʻor), վափուր (vapʻur), պաֆոռ (pafoṙ), փաֆոռ (pʻafoṙ)
• → Georgian: ვაფორი (vapori) — Chveneburi
• → Laz: ვაფური (vapuri), ვაფოჲი (vapoyi) — Lome
• → Northern Kurdish: vapûr, wapor, papor
• → South Levantine Arabic: بابور (bābōr, “ship”)

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1951) “վափօր”, in Ewropakan pʻoxaṙeal baṙer hayerēni mēǰ [European Loanwords in Armenian] (Azgayin matenadaran; 166) (in Armenian), published from the author's manuscript submitted in 1921, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 145
• Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “vapor”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 355
• Pōzačean, Yakovbos (1841) “վափօր”, in Hamaṙōt baṙaran i tačkakanē i hay [Concise Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary]‎^[1], Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 871b
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “واپور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2120