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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish طارتی (tartı, “weight of an object, anything by which the weight or quality of a thing might be judged, a scale, measure”)[1] (alternatively طارتو (tartu)), from طارتمق (tartmak, “to weigh, to ponder, to estimate deliberately”), from Proto-Turkic *tart- (“to pull, to hang, to weigh on a scale”),[2][3] morphologically tart- + -ı (deverbal nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /taɾˈtɯ/
- Hyphenation: tar‧tı
Noun
tartı (definite accusative tartıyı, plural tartılar)
- The weight of an object.
- A weighing tool; a scale.
- Synonyms: çeki, terazi, baskül
- (figurative) Ratio, scale, measure
- (nautical) A rope used to raise or lower a sail; halyard.
Declension
References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طارتی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1220
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dart-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tart-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
- “tartı”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu