torpaq
Appearance
Azerbaijani
[edit]| Cyrillic | торпаг | |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | تورپاق | |

Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish طوپراق (ṭopraq), from Proto-Turkic *toprak (“earth, soil”).[1] Developed through metathesis, compare Turkish toprak. Cognate with Azerbaijani toz.
Cognates
Cognate with Crimean Tatar topraq, Bashkir тупраҡ (tupraq), Kazakh топырақ (topıraq), Kyrgyz топурак (topurak), Kyrgyz тобрак (tobrak), Tatar туфрак (tufraq), Turkmen toprak, Tuvan довурак (dovurak), Uzbek tuproq, Uyghur تۇپراق (tupraq), dialectal Yakut тобурах (toburax, “dust”), Chuvash тӑпра (tăpra).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): [torˈpɑχ]
- (Tabriz) IPA(key): [topˈrɑχ][2] (as if spelled topraq)
- (Sonqori) IPA(key): [turˈpɑχ][3] (as if spelled turpaq)
Audio (Baku): (file) - Hyphenation: tor‧paq
Noun
[edit]torpaq (definite accusative torpağı, plural torpaqlar)
- soil, earth (as in "handful of earth")
- country (often in plural)
- 2012 May 19, Səbuhi Məmmədov, Xalq Qəzeti:
- Rəsmi Pekin sərt reaksiya göstərərək Skarboro (Hyunyan) adasının Çinin "tarixi torpaqları" olduğunu bir daha bəyan etdi.
- Official Beijing reacted sharply and once again stated, that Huangyan (Scarborough) Shoal is a "historical land" of China
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | torpaq | torpaqlar |
| definite accusative | torpağı | torpaqları |
| dative | torpağa | torpaqlara |
| locative | torpaqda | torpaqlarda |
| ablative | torpaqdan | torpaqlardan |
| definite genitive | torpağın | torpaqların |
Derived terms
[edit]- torpağa tapşırmaq (“to bury”)
References
[edit]- ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*topra-k”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden; Cologne; New York: E.J. Brill
- ^ Haneda, Koichi (2009—2010), “torpaq”, in لغات لهجهی تبریز [Vocabulary of Tabrizi Dialect] (in Persian), Tabriz: یاران, →ISBN, page 78
- ^ Straughn, Christopher A. (2023), “Sonqori: turpa̮x”, in Turkic database at Elegant Lexicon[1]
Categories:
- Azerbaijani terms inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish
- Azerbaijani terms derived from Old Anatolian Turkish
- Azerbaijani terms inherited from Proto-Turkic
- Azerbaijani terms derived from Proto-Turkic
- Azerbaijani terms with IPA pronunciation
- Azerbaijani terms with audio pronunciation
- Azerbaijani lemmas
- Azerbaijani nouns
- Azerbaijani terms with quotations
- Azerbaijani words derived through metathesis