lordu

Sicilian

Alternative forms

loddu

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin lūridus, whence also Italian lordo.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈlɔɾdu/
Hyphenation: lòr‧du

Adjective

lordu (feminine singular lorda, masculine and feminine plural lordi)

dirty

Inflection

	Masculine	Feminine
Singular	lordu	lorda
Plural	lordi	lordi

Synonyms

sporcu

Antonyms

pulitu

Turkish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɫoɾˈdu]
Hyphenation: lor‧du

Noun

lordu

accusative singular of lord
third-person singular possessive of lord

Etymology 2

From Armenian լորտու (lortu) and its dialectal forms.

Alternative forms

loydu, loydi (Hemşin)
lordi (Kemaliye)

Noun

lordu (Hemşin)

snail
Synonym: salyangoz
slug
Synonym: sümüklü böcek

Derived terms

loydufes (“a poisonous mushroom”, literally “snail-cap”)

References

“lordi”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 9, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1977, page 3088a
Bläsing, Uwe (1992) Armenisches Lehngut im Türkeitürkischen am Beispiel von Hemşin (Dutch Studies in Armenian Language and Literature; 2) (in German), Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, § 81, page 57
Bläsing, Uwe (2007), “Armenian in the vocabulary and culture of the Turkish Hemshinli”, in Hovann H. Simonian, editor, The Hemshin: History, society and identity in the Highlands of Northeast Turkey (Peoples of the Caucasus)‎, London and New York: Routledge, page 293
Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § 207, page 55
Emiroğlu, Kudret (1989), “gohlis”, in Trabzon-Maçka Etimoloji Sözlüğü [Trabzon-Maçka Etymological Dictionary] (in Turkish), Ankara, page 107b
Öztürk, Özhan (2005), “loydu”, in Karadeniz: Ansiklopedik Sözlük [Black Sea: Encyclopaedic Dictionary] (in Turkish), volume II, Istanbul: Heyamola Yayınları, page 792a
Tzitzilis, Christos (1987) Griechische Lehnwörter im Türkischen (mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der anatolischen Dialekte) (Schriften der Balkan-Kommission, philologische Abteilung; 33)‎ (in German), Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, § 301, page 82, compares to Greek λιόρδα (liórda) glossing it as "snail", but in reality this is a dialectal form of λόρδα (lórda, “great hunger”) and is not related
Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan (2018), “lordu”, in Irfan Çağatay Aleksiva, editor, Titer: Hemşin Türkçesi Sözlüğü (in Turkish), Istanbul: Lazi Kültür, page 148
Vardanyan, Sergey (2016), “Łazaxstani, Łrłzstani ew Tʿurkʿiayi mahmedakan hamšenahayericʿ graṙvac hayeren mi kʿani baṙeri masin [About Some Armenian Words Written from Muslim Hamshentsi Armenians of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal]‎ (in Armenian), issue 3, Yerevan: Academy Press, page 82 of 81–95