یاورو

یاورو

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• یاوری‎ (yavrı)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yabrïg (“young of animals”).

Noun

یاورو • (yavru) (plural یاورولر‎)

1. baby (young animal)
2. baby, child (young human)
   • 1926 April 3, baby food advertisement in Hakimiyet-i Milliye, page 6:

     ‏یاوروكز ، سعادتكزدر‎

     yavrunuz, saadetinizdir

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

Descendants

• Turkish: yavru
• → Armenian: յավրու (yavru), յավրում (yavrum)

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “یاورو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1346