یراسه

Ottoman Turkish

یراسه

Alternative forms

• یاراسه (yarasa), یارسه (yarasa)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yarïsgu (“bat”), a development of *yar- (“naked; hairless”). Cognate with Azerbaijani yarasa, Old Uyghur [script needed] (yarsko), Siberian Tatar [script needed] (yarıskı), Salar yarasan, Turkmen yarasa and Tuvan часкы (çaskı).

Noun

یراسه • (yarasa)

1. bat, any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera

   Synonyms: شبپره (şebpere), گیجه قوشی (gece kuşu)

Descendants

• Gagauz: yarasa
• Turkish: yarasa

Further reading

• Baskakov, N. A. (1991) İsmail Kaynak, A. Mecit Doğru, transl., Gagauz Türkçesinin Sözlüğü [The Dictionary of Gagauz Turkish] (in Turkish), Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, page 258
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yarasa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5219
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یارسه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 500a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یراسه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1350
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vespertilio”, 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 1745
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یراسه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5570
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yarasa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یراسه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2200