طرتیل

Ottoman Turkish

طرتیل

Alternative forms

• طرطر (tırtır)
• طرتل (tırtıl), طرطل (tırtıl), طرطیل (tırtıl)

Etymology

A dissimilation from earlier طرطر (tırtır), itself from Armenian թրթուր (tʻrtʻur, “caterpillar, grub”).

Noun

طرتیل • (tırtıl)

1. caterpillar, leafworm, the larva of a butterfly or moth
2. chenille, a soft and bunchy fabric used to make sweaters

Derived terms

• طرتیل اوتی (tırtıl otu, “scorpion's tail”)
• طرتیل یواسی (tırtıl yuvası, “caterpillar nest”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: tırtıl
• → Albanian: tërtër
• → Romanian: tertel

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tırtıl”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4817
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طرطل”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 312b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طرتیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 802
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Eruca”, 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 479
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طرطل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3098
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tırtıl”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طرتیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1236