دره
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دره
Khalaj
Noun
دَره (dara or dərə) (definite accusative دَرهنی or دَرهنؽ, plural دَرهلَر or دَرهلار)
Declension
Declension of دره
Declension of دره
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Persian دره (darre, “valley; crack, fissure”).
Noun
دره • (dere)
- valley, dale, vale, an elongated depression cast between hills or mountains
- Synonym: وادی (vadi)
- rivulet, brook, a body of water smaller than a river usually dry in the summer
- ravine, gorge, canyon, gully, a deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides
Derived terms
- بورغاج دره (burgac dere, “sinuous valley”)
- دره اوتی (dere otu, “dill”)
- دره بكی (dere beğı, “sort of lord”)
- دره تپه (dere tepe, “steep and difficult”)
- طام درهسی (dam deresi, “hollow between two slopes of a roof”)
- یابان دره اوتی (yaban dere otu, “wild dill”)
Descendants
Further reading
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- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dere”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1169
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دره”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 223a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 570
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vallis”, 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 1715
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2067
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dere”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 898
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Arabic دُرَّة (durra, “single pearl”).
Noun
دره • (dürre) (plural درر (dürer) or درات (dürrât))
- pearl-grain, a single bead made of pearl
- Synonym: اینجو دانهسی (inci tanesi)
Descendants
- Turkish: dürre
Further reading
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- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dürre”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1330
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “dürre”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 230
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 571
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2067
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 899
Pashto
Noun
دره • (dará) f
References
- “دره”, in Pashto Dictionary, Peshawar, Pakistan: Pukhtoogle, 2020.
- Pashtoon, Zeeya A. (2009) “دره”, in Pashto–English Dictionary, Hyattsville: Dunwoody Press
Persian
Etymology
Uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to tear, split”) or *dʰel(h₂)- ("valley"), the existence of which is uncertain, see Proto-Germanic *dalą for more. Cognate with Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬭𐬈𐬥𐬁 (darenā) and Sogdian 𐫔𐫡 (δar-).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): ,
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): ,
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): ,
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | dara, darra |
| Dari reading? | dara, darra |
| Iranian reading? | dara, darre |
| Tajik reading? | dara, darra |
Noun
| Dari | دره |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | дара |
دره • (dare, darre)
Descendants
- → Gujarati: દરા (darā)
- → Khalaj: dara
- → Ottoman Turkish: دره (dere)
- Turkish: dere
- → Azerbaijani: dərə
References
- Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 344