اجرت
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic أُجْرَة (ʔujra, “rent; reward; compensation”).
Noun
اجرت • (ücret) (definite accusative اجرتی (ücreti), plural اجرات (ücurât))
- pay, wage, remuneration, salary, emolument, the amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work
- Synonym: معاش (maʼaş)
- charge, fee, remuneration, honorarium, the amount of money levied for rights or professional services
- Synonym: بدل (bedel)
- postage, the charge required to send a letter, parcel, or item through the post, usually signalled with a postage stamp
Derived terms
- اجرتسز (ücretsiz, “free of pay, hire, or rent”)
- اجرتلو (ücretli, “used or employed for pay”)
- مشورت اجرتی (meşveret ücreti, “charge of consultation”)
Descendants
- Turkish: ücret
Further reading
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- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ücret”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5027
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “ücret”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1353
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اجرت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 52
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Compensatio”, 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[3], Vienna, column 219
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اجرت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 60
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ücret”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اجرت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 28
Urdu
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ʊd͡ʒ.ɾət̪/
Noun
اجرت • (ujrat) f (Hindi spelling उजरत)