تراتور
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- تراطور, طراتور, ترتور
Etymology
Uncertain. According to Theodoridis apud Eren, from Pontic Greek ταραχτόν (tarachtón, “not very thick colostrum”). According to traditional dictionaries apud Kerestedjian, from Persian تره دوغ (tara-doġ, “herbs and sour milk”). According to Todorov apud BER, from Persian تار و تور (tār o tūr), which he glosses as "crumbs".
Noun
تراتور • (tarator, terator)
- tarator (a sauce of pounded nuts and oil, eaten with bread; a kind of salad of chopped cucumber and curds, etc.)
Descendants
- Turkish: tarator
- → Armenian: թէռաթուր (tʿēṙatʿur), թառաթուր (tʿaṙatʿur)
- → Albanian: tarator
- → Egyptian Arabic: [script needed] (tarātor, ṭarāṭōr)
- → North Levantine Arabic: [script needed] (ṭarāṭōr)
- → Aromanian: tãrãtor
- → Bulgarian: тарато́р (taratór)
- → Greek: ταρατόρι (taratóri)
- → Macedonian: таратор (tarator), таратур (taratur)
- → Serbo-Croatian: taratȍr / тарато̏р
References
- Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1951), “թէռաթուր”, in Ewropakan pʿoxaṙeal baṙer hayerēni mēǰ [European Loanwords in Armenian] (Azgayin matenadaran; 166) (in Armenian), Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 80a, suspects an Italian origin
- Eren, Hasan (1999), “tarator”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, pages 394–395
- Todorov T., editor (2010), “таратор”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 7, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 817
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “تراطور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 358b
- Kerestedjian, Bedros (1971), “terator”, in Matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue turque : Contenant l'étymologie des mots de la langue turque ottomane et orientale et l'origine des mots étrangers dérivés des langues sémitiques, indo-iraniennes, classiques et européennes (in French), reprint of the 1912 London and 1891 Constantinople editions, Amsterdam: Philo Press, →ISBN, page 358b
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2017), “tarator”, in Nişanyan Sözlük, retrieved 2012-05-05, derives from Venetian trator (“trattoria owner”)
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “تراتور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 524
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “طراتور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1234
- Stachowski, Marek (2019), “tarator”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, DOI:, page 322a