آردج
Ottoman Turkish
آردج
Alternative forms
- آردیج (ardıc), آردیچ (ardıç)
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *artïč, from Proto-Iranian *hampr̥sā (“juniper”); cognate with Azerbaijani ardıc, Southern Altai артыш (artïš), Bashkir артыш (artış), Tatar артыш (artış) and Tuvan артыш (artış). Doublet of ابهل (ebhül, ubhul), the same word from Arabic أَبْهُل (ʔabhul) which was borrowed from its Middle Persian descendant.
Noun
آردج • (ardıç)
- juniper, any shrub or tree of the genus Juniperus
- Synonym: عرعر ('ar'ar)
Derived terms
- آردج صویی (ardıç suyi, “gin, hollands”)
- آردج قطرانی (ardıç katranı, “juniper tar”)
- آردج قوشی (ardıç kuşu, “thrush”)
Descendants
- Turkish: ardıç
- → Armenian: արտըճ (artəč)
- → Bulgarian: ардич (ardič), ардъч (ardǎč), аръдъч (arǎdǎč)
- → Middle Armenian: արտուճ (artuč)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “ardıç”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 282
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “آردج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 13a
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Juniperus”, 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, Vienna, column 887
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “آردج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 138
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “ardıç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “آردیچ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 66
- Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866), “آردج”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 27a