یاتاق
Ottoman Turkish
یاتاق
Alternative forms
- یاتق (yatak)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yatgak (“bed”), from *yat- (“to lie, to sleep”), the same root of یاتمق (yatmak, “to lie down, sleep”) and یتاغان (yatağan, “type of sword”); cognate with Azerbaijani yataq and Crimean Tatar yataq.
Noun
یاتاق • (yatak)
- bed, a piece of furniture on which to rest or sleep
- Synonym: بستر (bister)
- (in general) every place on which one lies down
- Synonyms: بستر (bister), مرقد (merkad), مهاد (mihad)
- place of ambush, a concealed position or state
- mart, a place of congregation or gathering
- (nautical) place of anchorage for a ship
- space between the hind legs of a horse
Derived terms
- یاتاقلق (yataklık, “bedstead”)
- یاتاقلو (yataklı, “furnished with beds”)
Descendants
- Turkish: yatak
- → Armenian: յաթախ (yatʿax)
- → Romanian: iatac
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “yatak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5244
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Lectus”, 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 929
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “یاتاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5533
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “yatak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “یاتاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2179
Persian
Etymology
From Turkic. Compare Ottoman Turkish یاتاق (yatak), Azerbaijani yataq.
Noun
یاتاق • (yâtâq)
- (obsolete) bed
- Synonym: بستر (bastar)