آرال
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Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *aral (“island”). Compare other Turkic cognates like Kazakh арал (aral), Kyrgyz арал (aral), Turkish aral, Uyghur ئارال (aral), Uzbek orol and Yakut арыы (arıı), all deriving from the same root.
Noun
[edit]آرال • (aral)
- archipelago, a group, chain, cluster, or collection of islands usually found in large amounts of water
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: aral
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “makara”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3026
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آرال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 11
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آرال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 58