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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic رَايَة (rāya, “banner, ensign”).
Noun
رایت • (rayet) (plural رایات (rayat))
- flag, banner, standard, ensign
- Synonyms: بیراق (bayrak), سنجاق (sancak), علم (ʿalem), لوا (liva)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “rayet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3943
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “رایت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 614
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vexillum”, 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 1750
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “رایت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2269
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “رایت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 961