اردو
Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word اردو. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word اردو, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say اردو in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word اردو you have here. The definition of the word اردو will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofاردو, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
اردو 
Ordu province
Term Hindustani and Urdu were synonymous during first decade of the 20th century
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- اوردو (ordu)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ordu (“army camp”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰆𐰺𐰑𐰆 (ordu), Azerbaijani ordu, Bashkir урда (urda), Kazakh орда (orda), Kyrgyz ордо (ordo), Turkmen orda, Uyghur ئوردا (orda), Uzbek orda and Yakut ордуу (orduu).
Noun
اردو • (ordu) (definite accusative اردویی (orduyu), plural اردولر (ordular))
- military camp, a temporary military base provided with tents for the lodging of an army
- Synonym: اردوگاه (ordugâh)
- (by extension) army, a highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground operations
Derived terms
- اردو قاضیسی (ordu kadısı, “judge-advocate of an army”)
- اردو قالدرمق (ordu kaldırmak, “to break up a camp”)
- اردو قورمق (ordu kurmak, “to form a camp, to encamp”)
- اردو مركزی (ordu merkezi, “headquarters of an army”)
- اردو چیقارمق (ordu çıkarmak, “to send an army into the field”)
- اردولق (orduluk, “the time when troops are in the field”)
- اردوگاه (ordugâh, “military camp”)
- اردوی همایون (orduyı hümâyun, “imperial army; imperial camp”)
- قول اردو (kol ordu, “wing of an army”)
Descendants
- > Turkish: ordu (inherited)
- → Albanian: hordhi
- → Northern Kurdish: ordî
- → Arabic: عُرْضِيّ (ʕurḍiyy)
Proper noun
اردو • (ordu)
- Ordu (a city and province in the East Black Sea region, Turkey)
- Synonym: بایراملی (bayramlı) (obsolete)
Descendants
- Turkish: Ordu
Further reading
click to expand
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “اردو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 34
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ordu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3628
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اردو”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 22a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اردو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 67
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Castra”, 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 158
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اردو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 139
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ordu”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Ordu”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اردو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 65
- Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Ordu”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 589
Persian
Etymology
Derived from Proto-Turkic *ordu (“army, camp”) (see Azerbaijani ordu, Turkish ordu, Turkmen orda). Compare horde.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key):
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key):
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key):
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | urdū |
| Dari reading? | urdū |
| Iranian reading? | ordu |
| Tajik reading? | urdu |
Noun
اردو • (ordu) (plural اردوها (ordu-hâ))
| Dari | اردو |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | урду |
Derived terms
- اردوگاه (ordugâh, “camp, campsite”)
Proper noun
اُرْدو • (ordu)
Adjective
اُرْدو • (ordu)
Related terms
- زبان اردو (zabân-e ordu)
Descendants
- Dari: اردو (urdū)
- Iranian Persian: اردو (ordu)
- Tajik: урду (urdu), Урду (Urdu)
- → Bengali: উর্দু (urdu)
- → Gujarati: ઉર્દૂ (urdū)
- → Hindustani:
- → English: Urdu
- → Kannada: ಉರ್ದೂ (urdū)
- → Marathi: उर्दू (urdū)
- → Nepali: उर्दु (urdu), उर्दू (urdū)
- → Punjabi:
- → Telugu: ఉర్దూ (urdū)
Urdu
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Shortened from اردوئے معلی (urdū-e mu’allá), from Middle Hindi زبان اردوئے معلی (zubān-i urdū-e mu’allá), borrowed from Classical Persian زُبَانِ اُرْدُویِ مُعَلّیٰ (zubān-i urdū-yi mu'allā, “language of the royal camp”).
Proper noun
اُرْدُو • (urdū) f (Hindi spelling उर्दू)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Classical Persian اردو (urdū), from Turkic.
Noun
اُرْدُو • (urdū) f (Hindi spelling उर्दू)