آیران

Ottoman Turkish

آیران

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ayran (“buttermilk, airan”).

Noun

آیران • (ayran) (definite accusative آیرانی (ayranı), plural آیرانلر (ayranlar))

1. airan, a Turkish cold drink made from yoghurt and water with salt and sometimes herbs

   Synonym: دوغ (duğ)

Descendants

• Gagauz: ayran
• Turkish: ayran
• → Arabic: عَيْرَان (ʕayrān)
• → Bulgarian: айра́н (ajrán), айря́н (ajrján)
• → Greek: αριάνι (ariáni), αϊράν (aïrán)
• → Laz: აჲრანი (ayrani)
• → Polish: ajran

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ayran”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 392
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آیران”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 92b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آیران”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 43
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Oxygala”, 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 1230
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آیران”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 590
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ayran”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آیران”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 293a