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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɑj.jɑːɾe/
Noun
tayyare (definite accusative tayyareyi, plural tayyareler)
- (archaic) airplane
- Synonym: uçak
Derived terms
- tayyareci
References
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “tayyare”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1247
- Lewis, Geoffrey (1999) The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, page 107
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “tayyare”, in Nişanyan Sözlük