لودوس
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- لدوس (lodos), لودز (lodoz)
Etymology
From Byzantine Greek νότος (nótos).
Noun
لودوس • (lodos)
- the southwest wind
- the southwest point of the compass
- a southwest direction
Descendants
- Turkish: lodos
- → Armenian: լօտօս (lōtōs) – Constantinople
- → Bulgarian: ло́дос (lódos), лодо́с (lodós), лодо́са (lodósa), лодо́з (lodóz), лодус (lodus), ладо́з (ladóz)
- → Ladino: lodós
- → Laz: ლოდოზი (lodozi), ლოდოსი (lodosi)
References
- Blau, Otto (1868) Bosnisch-türkische Sprachdenkmäler, Berlin: F. A. Brockhaus, page 272
- Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée; Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 818, pages 547–548
- Kerestedjian, Bedros (1971), “lodos”, 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 317
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “لدوس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1629