arı

See also: ari, Ari, ARI, ári, arí, Ári, arī, Arı, -ari, and àrì

Azeri

Other scripts
Cyrillic	ары
Roman	arı
Perso-Arabic	آری

Etymology

Cognate with Old Turkic [Term?].

Noun

arı (definite accusative arını, plural arılar)

1. bee

Declension

Declension of arı

	singular	plural
nominative	arı	arılar
definite accusative	arını	arıları
dative	arıya	arılara
locative	arıda	arılarda
ablative	arıdan	arılardan
definite genitive	arının	arıların

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Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ.ɾɯ/

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Etymology 1

Cognate with Old Turkic [Term?] (“bee”), from Proto-Turkic *ārɨ (“wasp, bee”), which, according to the controversial Altaic hypothesis, is possibly derived from Proto-Altaic *p`ḗra (“bee”). Related to ayı and бөрі.

Noun

arı (definite accusative arıyı, plural arılar)

1. bee

Derived terms

• arıcı
• arıcılık
• arılık

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “arı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük.
• Sergei Starostin, Vladimir Dybo, Oleg Mudrak (2003), Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers (Etymology: *ārɨ).

Etymology 2

From Old Turkic arɨɣ/arɨ-/arɨt- (“clean, pure, fine”), from Proto-Turkic *aru, *ạrɨ- (“clean, pure, to be clean; to clean, purify”), which, according to the controversial Altaic hypothesis, is possibly derived from Proto-Altaic *ĕ́ro (“clean”). Related to er and -er.

Adjective

arı (comparative daha arı, superlative en arı)

1. clean
2. pure

Derived terms

• arınmak
• arındırmak
• arıtmak
• arıtılmak
• arıtım
• arıtma

References

• Joseph Greenberg, (2002) Indo-European and its closest relatives. 2nd Lexicon. Stanford University Press. p.23.
• Sergei Starostin, Vladimir Dybo, Oleg Mudrak (2003), Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers (Etymology: *ạrɨ-, *àr-, *ùrùpà-)