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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اوتوراق (oturaḳ, “taking a rest, the place of a halt, a permanent residence, any seat, the part on which a person or item sits, bottom”), from Ottoman Turkish اوتورمق (oturmaḳ, “to sit, to incubate, to live, to remain in a place, to ascend the throne, to go ashore”), from Old Turkic 𐰆𐰞𐰺 (ul¹r¹), from Proto-Turkic *oltur- or Proto-Turkic *olur- (“to sit”), morphologically otur- + -ak. Cognates with Albanian oturak, Azerbaijani oturaq, Kyrgyz отургуч (oturguc), Turkmen oturgyç.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o.tuˈɾak/
- Hyphenation: o‧tu‧rak
Noun
oturak (definite accusative oturağı, plural oturaklar)
- A place or thing meant for sitting.
- A low stool, often without a back or armrest.
- Synonyms: iskemle, tabure
- The base of a thing; bottom, foot.
- Synonyms: taban, (regional) oturgaç
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References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوتوراق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 237
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ol-ur-, *ol(u)-tur-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “oturak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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