یلدز

Ottoman Turkish

یلدز

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish یلدوز, from Proto-Turkic *yulduŕ (“star”).

Noun

یلدز • (yıldız)

1. (astronomy) star, a luminous celestial body made up of plasma

   Synonyms: اختر (ahter), ستاره (sitāre), نجم (necm)

2. north, the compass point directed toward the North Pole
3. asterisk, the symbol *, used for various purposes

Derived terms

• آق یلدز (ak yıldız, “morning star”)
• قویروقلو یلدز (kuyruklu yıldız, “comet”)
• یلدز بوجكی (yıldız böceği, “glowworm”)
• یلدز طاشی (yıldız taşı, “aventurine”)
• یلدز قوردی (yıldız kurdu, “glowworm”)
• یلدز چیچكی (yıldız çiçeği, “dahlia”)
• یلدز یلی (yıldız yeli, “north wind”)
• یلدزلو (yıldızlı, “starred”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: yıldız
• Turkish: yıldız
• → Armenian: եըլտըզ (eəltəz)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yıldız1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5321
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یلدز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 510a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یلدز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1356
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Stella”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1595
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یلدز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5602
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yıldız”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یلدز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2208