اورمان

Ottoman Turkish

اورمان

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *orman (“forest”); cognate with Azerbaijani orman, Bashkir урман (urman), Chuvash вӑрман (vărman), Kazakh орман (orman), Kyrgyz ормон (ormon), Turkmen ormon, Uyghur ئورمان (orman) and Uzbek oʻrmon.

Noun

اورمان • (orman)

1. forest, wood, a dense and uncultivated area of trees and undergrowth

   Synonyms: بیشه (bişe), میشه (meşe)

Derived terms

• اورمان كبابی (orman kebabı, “roast prepared over a wood fire”)
• اورمانجی (ormancı, “forest guard”)
• اورمانلق (ormanlık, “thickly wooded”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: orman
• → Armenian: օռման (ōṙman) — Constantinople

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “orman”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3631
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sylva”, 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^[1], Vienna, column 1643
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اورمان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 503
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “orman”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اورمان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 246