آرال

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *aral (“island”). Compare other Turkic cognates like Kazakh арал (aral), Kyrgyz арал (aral), Uyghur ئارال (aral), Uzbek orol and Yakut арыы (arıı), all deriving from the same root.

Noun

آرال • (aral)

  1. archipelago, a group, chain, cluster, or collection of islands usually found in large amounts of water

Descendants

  • Turkish: aral

Further reading

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