yıldırım

Cognate with Turkmen ýyldyrym (“lightning, thunder”)

• Hyphenation: yıl‧dı‧rım

yıldırım

1. lightning

• “yıldırım”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

From Ottoman Turkish یلدرم (yıldırım, “thunderbolt”). Earliest attested in Kipchak records in 1312 as یولدوروم (yuldurum, “spark”) together with the deriving stem (yuldura-, “to shine”), also Ottoman Turkish یلدرامق (yıldıramak, “to flash, gleam, glitter”). Equivalent to یلدرا (yıldıra-, “to flash”) + ـم (-ım, “noun forming suffix”).

Cognate with Azerbaijani ildırım (“lightning, thunder”), Turkmen ýyldyrym (“lightning, thunder”). Akin to Karakhanid (yuldrık, “sparkling, shining”) from (yuldramāk, “to shine”) and Turkmen ýaldyramak (“to shine”).

• IPA^(key): /jɯɫ.dɯˈrɯm/

yıldırım (definite accusative yıldırımı, plural yıldırımlar)

1. (meteorology) thunderbolt

• yıldız
• yaldız

• şimşek
• ışın