مرتع

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Arabic

Etymology

Noun of place from the root ر ت ع (r t ʕ).

Pronunciation

Noun

مَرْتَع (martaʕm (plural مَرَاتِع (marātiʕ))

  1. grassland, pasture

Declension

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَرْتَع (martaʕ, pasture; fertile ground), from رَتَعَ (rataʕa).

Noun

مرتع (mertaʿ) (plural مراتع)

  1. pasture, an open field on which livestock is kept for feeding
    Synonym: اوتلق (otlak)

Descendants

  • Turkish: merta

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “merta”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3158
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مرتع”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1146
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pratum”, 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 1355
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مرتع”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4556
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مرتع”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1806
  • Wehr, Hans (1960) “رتع”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz