رایت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَايَة (rāya, “banner, ensign”).

Noun

رایت • (rayet) (plural رایات (rayat))

1. flag, banner, standard, ensign

   Synonyms: بیراق (bayrak), سنجاق (sancak), علم (ʿalem), لوا (liva)

Descendants

• Turkish: rayet

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “rayet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3943
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “رایت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 614
• 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^[2], Vienna, column 1750
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “رایت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2269
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “رایت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 961