قرتال

Ottoman Turkish

قرتال

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kạ̄rt- (“falcon, hawk”) and cognate with Azerbaijani qartal. According to Nishanyan, this root has evolved from *kara (“black”).

Noun

قرتال • (kartal)

1. eagle, any of several birds of prey in the subfamily Aquilinae

   Synonyms: دال (dal), عقاب (ʿukab), قره قوش (kara kuş)

Derived terms

• قرتال تویی (kartal tüyü, “eagle feather”)
• قرتال طاشی (kartal taşı, “eaglestone”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kartal
• → Armenian: խառթալ (xaṙtʻal) — Constantinople
• → Northern Kurdish: qertel
• → Romanian: cartal

Proper noun

Kartal district

قرتال • (Kartal)

1. Kartal (a neighbourhood and district in Istanbul province, Turkey)

Descendants

• Turkish: Kartal

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kartal1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2449
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قرتال”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 360b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قرتال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 953
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Aquila”, 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 77
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قرتال”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3663
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kartal”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Kartal”, 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) “قرتال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1445
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Kartal”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[6], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 433