tayyare

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish طیاره, itself derived from the Arabic ط ي ر (ṭ y r, “related to flying”). Likely coined by Fazıl Ahmet Aykaç around 1910. Displaced by the neologism uçak starting from the late 1930s, originally proposed for the sense 'airfield' during the language reform.

Noun

tayyare

1. (archaic) airplane

Synonyms

• uçak

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tayyare”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Lewis, Geoffrey (1999) The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, page 107