وارون
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- وارونه (varune)
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian وارون (vârun, “upside down, inverted”).
Adjective
وارون • (varun)
- upside down, inverted, reverse, upturned
- Synonym: ترس (ters)
- (of a building) thrown down, demolished
- inauspicious, ill-omened, unfortunate, unfavorable
Descendants
- Turkish: varun
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “varun”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5093
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “وارون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1299
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Iversus”, 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 861
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “وارون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5317
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “وارون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2122