یلدرم

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Ottoman Turkish

یلدرم

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish (yıldırım, ıldırım), itself from Proto-Turkic *yaltïrïm (“lightning”), from Proto-Turkic *yaltïr- (“to flash, blaze”), the same root of یلدرامق (yıldıramak, “to flash, gleam, glitter”).[1] Cognate with Azerbaijani ildırım, Kipchak یولدوروم (yuldurum) and Turkmen ýyldyrym.

Noun

یلدرم • (yıldırım)

  1. thunderbolt, lightning, a discharge of electricity within a cloud
    Synonyms: آذرخش (azerahş), برق (berk), صاعقه (sa'ika)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: yıldırım
  • → Armenian: յըլտըրըմ (yəltərəm)

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jal-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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