ارغات

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Ottoman Turkish

ارغات

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Etymology

Borrowed from Greek εργάτης (ergátis, “labourer; windlass, winch”), from Ancient Greek ἐργάτης (ergátēs).

Pronunciation

Noun

ارغات • (ırgat) (definite accusative ارغاتی (ırgatı), plural ارغاتلر (ırgatlar))

  1. labourer, manual worker, who uses bodily strength rather than intellect to earn a wage
    Synonym: عامل (ʼamil)
  2. capstan, windlass, winch, any mechanical device used to pull in or let out a rope or cable
    Synonyms: بوجرغات (bocurgat), چقرق (çıkrık)

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Further reading

  • Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “ارغات”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 37
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ırgat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2048
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ارغات”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 68
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ارغات”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 143–144
  • 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 47
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ارغات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 69
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “ارغات”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 28
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