طرتیل
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A dissimilation from earlier طرطر (tırtır), itself from Armenian թրթուր (tʻrtʻur, “caterpillar, grub”).
Noun
[edit]طرتیل • (tırtıl)
- caterpillar, leafworm, the larva of a butterfly or moth
- chenille, a soft and bunchy fabric used to make sweaters
Derived terms
[edit]- طرتیل اوتی (tırtıl otu, “scorpion's tail”)
- طرتیل یواسی (tırtıl yuvası, “caterpillar nest”)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tırtıl”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4817
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طرطل”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 312b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طرتیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 802
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Eruca”, 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 479
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طرطل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3098
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tırtıl”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طرتیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1236