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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *üŕ-t (“on top, high above”), derivative of *ǖŕ.
Noun
اوست • (üst)
- top, the upper surface of anything
- the outside surface of anything
- the space over a thing
- anything that is on a thing
Adjective
اوست • (üst)
- upper, uppermost
Derived terms
- اوستلك (üstlük, “quality of being uppermost”)
- اوستلو (üstlu, “possessed of a top”)
- اوستون (üstün, “superior, dominant”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “üst”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5057
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوست”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 188
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Superioritas”, 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, Vienna, column 1632
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوست”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 515–516
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “üst”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوست”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 252