یاتاق

Ottoman Turkish

یاتاق

Alternative forms

• یاتق (yatak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yatgak (“bed”), from *yat- (“to lie, to sleep”), the same root of یاتمق (yatmak, “to lie down, sleep”) and یتاغان (yatağan, “type of sword”); cognate with Azerbaijani yataq and Crimean Tatar yataq.

Noun

یاتاق • (yatak)

1. bed, a piece of furniture on which to rest or sleep

   Synonym: بستر (bister)

2. (in general) every place on which one lies down

   Synonyms: بستر (bister), مرقد (merkad), مهاد (mihad)

3. place of ambush, a concealed position or state
4. mart, a place of congregation or gathering
5. (nautical) place of anchorage for a ship
6. space between the hind legs of a horse

Derived terms

• یاتاقخانه (yatakhâne, “dormitory”)
• یاتاقلق (yataklık, “bedstead”)
• یاتاقلو (yataklı, “furnished with beds”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: yatak
• → Armenian: յաթախ (yatʻax)
• → Romanian: iatac

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yatak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5244
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lectus”, 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^[1], Vienna, column 929
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یاتاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 5533
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yatak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاتاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2179

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkic. Compare Ottoman Turkish یاتاق (yatak), Azerbaijani yataq.

Noun

یاتاق • (yâtâq)

1. (obsolete) bed

   Synonyms: بستر (bestar), تختخواب (taxt-e-xâb)

References

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1975) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 21)‎^[4] (in German), volume IV, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 136–139