آرا

See also: ارا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *āra (“distance; interval”) and thus related to آیرمق (ayırmak, “to part; separate, choose, pick, select, distinguish”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰺𐰀 (r¹a /⁠āra⁠/), Azerbaijani ara, Bashkir ара (ara), Uzbek ora and Yakut аара (aara).

Alternative forms

• ارا (ara), اره (ara), آره (ara)

Noun

آرا • (ara)

1. space or place, opening, interval, room, between two or among many things

   Synonyms: آرالق (aralık), بوشلق (boşluk), خلال (hilal), مابین (mabeyin), مسافه (mesafe)

2. space of time, an interval or pause between two or among many events

   Synonyms: فاصله (fasıla), وقت (vakt)

3. (figuratively) relationship, understanding, footing between two persons

Derived terms

• آرا آچلمق (ara açılmak, “to break up”)
• آرا باغی (ara bağı, “septum of the nose”)
• آرا بولمق (ara bulmak, “to find an opportunity”)
• آراسز (arasız, “continuous, uninterrupted”)
• آرالاتمق (aralatmak, “to make two things separate”)
• آرالامق (aralamak, “to separate two things”)
• آرالانمق (aralanmak, “to be separated”)
• آرالق (aralık, “space, interval, opening”)
• آره‌سنده (arasında, “between, among”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: ara
• → Armenian: արա (ara)
• → Laz: არა (ara)

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ara1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 271
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آرا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 11
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Intervallum”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 852
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آرا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 123
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ara”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آرا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 55

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic آرَاء (ʔārāʔ), plural of رَأْي (raʔy).

Noun

آرا • (ara)

1. opinion, belief, view, way of thinking

   Synonym: بیلك (bilik)

2. vote, a formalized choice on legally relevant measures

   Synonym: اوی (oy)

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ara3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 273
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آرا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[5], Constantinople: Mihran, page 11
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آرا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 56

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.ɾɑː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.ɾɑː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.ɾɑː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.ɾɑː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔː.ɾɔː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒː.ɹɒː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɔ.ɾɔ]

Readings
Classical reading?	ārā
Dari reading?	ārā
Iranian reading?	ârâ
Tajik reading?	oro

Noun

آرا • (ârâ)

1. plural of رأی (ra'y)

Verb

آرا • (ârâ)

1. present stem form of آراستن (ârâstan)