یلدرم

Ottoman Turkish

یلدرم

Alternative forms

• یلدریم (yıldırım)
• եըլտըրըմ (yıldırım) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (yıldırım, ıldırım), itself from Proto-Turkic *yaltïrïm (“lightning”), from Proto-Turkic *yaltïr- (“to flash, blaze”), the same root of یلدرامق (yıldıramak, “to flash, gleam, glitter”). Cognate with Azerbaijani ildırım, Kipchak یولدوروم (yuldurum) and Turkmen ýyldyrym.

Noun

یلدرم • (yıldırım)

1. thunderbolt, lightning, a discharge of electricity within a cloud

   Synonyms: آذرخش (azerahş), برق (berk), صاعقه (sa'ika)

Derived terms

• یلدرم دمیری (yıldırım demiri, “thunderstone”)
• یلدرم چارپمق (yıldırım çarpmak, “to strike”)
• یلدرم گبی (yıldırım gibi, “swift as a thunderbolt”)

Related terms

• یلدرامق (yıldıramak, “to flash, gleam, glitter”)

Descendants

• Turkish: yıldırım
• → Armenian: յըլտըրըմ (yəltərəm)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yıldırım1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5320
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یلدرم”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 510a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یلدریم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1356
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fulgur”, 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 627
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یلدرم”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5601
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yıldırım”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یلدرم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2208