آطه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ātag (“island”); cognate with Azerbaijani ada, Crimean Tatar ada, Kazakh атау (atau), Kumyk атав (ataw), Tatar атау (ataw) and Turkmen ada.

Noun

آطه • (ada) (definite accusative آطه‌یی (adayı), plural آطه‌لر (adalar))

  1. island, an area of land totally surrounded by water
    Synonym: جزیره (cezire)
  2. peninsula, a piece of land projecting into water

Derived terms

  • آطه بازركانی (ada bazirgânı, “merchant of the Archipelago”)
  • آطه بالغی (ada balığı, “whale”)
  • آطه صوغانی (ada soğanı, “sea onion”)
  • آطه طاوشانی (ada tavşanı, “rabbit”)
  • آطه قدر بیوك (ada kadar büyük, “enormous, gigantic”, literally “as big as an island”)
  • آطه چایی (ada çayı, “sage”)
  • آطه‌لی (adalı, “native of an island”)
  • ایكنه آطه (iğne ada, “İğneada, a town in Turkey”)
  • چوقه آطه‌سی (çoka adası, çuka adası, “Kythira, a Greek island”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: ada
    • → Northern Kurdish: ada
    • → Zazaki: ada
  • Gagauz: ada
  • → Albanian: adë
  • → Armenian: ատա (ata)
  • → Crimean Tatar: ada
  • → Ladino: adá
  • → Laz: ადა (ada)
  • → Macedonian: ада (ada)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: ada
  • → Ubykh: ада (ada)

Further reading

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