بیراق

See also: بىراق and یپراق

Azerbaijani

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

بیراق (definite accusative بیراقی, plural بیراقلر)

1. Arabic spelling of bayraq

Ottoman Turkish

بیراق

Alternative forms

• بایراق (bayrak), بیرق (bayrak)
• պայրագ (bayrak) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *badrak (“banner, flag”).

cognates

Cognate with Azerbaijani bayraq, Bashkir байраҡ (bajraq), Gagauz bayrak, Kazakh байрақ (bairaq), Kyrgyz байрак (bayrak), Laz bayraği, Tatar bayraq, Turkmen baýdak and baýrak, Uyghur بايراق (bayraq) and Uzbek bayroq.

Noun

بیراق • (bayrak)

1. flag, banner, standard, ensign, especially foreign flags

   Synonyms: رایت (rayet), سنجاق (sancak), علم (ʿalem), لوا (liva)

Derived terms

• بیراقدار (bayrakdar, “flag-bearer”)
• بیراقلق (bayraklık, “bunting”)

Descendants

• Turkish: bayrak
• → Albanian: bajrak
• → Arabic: بَيْرَق (bayraq)
  • → Tigre: ቤረቅ (beräḳ)
• → Armenian: պայրախ (payrax), պարյախ (paryax), բայրաղ (bayraġ)
• → Bulgarian: байра́к (bajrák), байря́к (bajrják)
• → Georgian: ბაირაღი (bairaɣi)
  • → Mingrelian: ბაირაღი (bairaɣi)
  • → Svan: ბა̈ჲრა̈ხ (bäyräx)
• → Greek: μπαϊράκι (baïráki)
• → Ladino: באייראק (bayrak)
• → Macedonian: бајрак (bajrak), барјак (barjak)
• → Northern Kurdish: bayrax, bayraq, bêraq, bêrax
• → Persian: بیرق (bayraq / beyraġ), بیراق (bayrāq / beyrâġ)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: बैरक़ (bairaq)

    Urdu: بَیرَق (bairaq)

  • → Pashto: بيرغ (bayráǧ), بيرق (bayráq)
  • → Sindhi: بَيرَقَ (bairaqa)
• → Romanian: bairac
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ба̀рја̄к, (archaic) ба̀јрак

  Latin script: bàrjāk, (archaic) bàjrak

• → Ubykh: баираҟ (bajraqʼ), бераҟ (beraqʼ)
• → Zazaki: beyraqe, bayraqı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “bayrak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 512
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “بیراق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 138b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بیراق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 301
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Vexillum”, 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 1750
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “بیراق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 981
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “bayrak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بیراق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 419