ارغات

Ottoman Turkish

ارغات

Alternative forms

• ارغاد (ırgad)

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek εργάτης (ergátis, “labourer; windlass, winch”), from Ancient Greek ἐργάτης (ergátēs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɯɾˈɡat/

Noun

ارغات • (ırgat) (definite accusative ارغاتی (ırgatı), plural ارغاتلر (ırgatlar))

1. labourer, manual worker, who uses bodily strength rather than intellect to earn a wage

   Synonym: عامل (ʼamil)

2. capstan, windlass, winch, any mechanical device used to pull in or let out a rope or cable

   Synonyms: بوجرغات (bocurgat), چقرق (çıkrık)

Derived terms

• ارغات پازاری (ırgat pazarı, “place where labourers collect to be hired”)
• ارغاتلق (ırgatlık, “the quality of a labourer”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: ırgat
• → Albanian: argat
• → Armenian: ըրղաթ (ərġatʻ), ըռղաթ (əṙġatʻ)
• → Aromanian: argat, argatu
• → Bulgarian: арга́т (argát)
• → Macedonian: аргат (argat)
• → Romanian: argat
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: а̀ргат

  Latin script: àrgat

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “ارغات”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 37
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ırgat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2048
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ارغات”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 68
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ارغات”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, columns 143–144
• Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 47
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ارغات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 69
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “ارغات”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 28