بیاض

See also: بياض

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَيَاض (bayāḍ, “whiteness, white”).

Adjective

بیاض • (beyaz)

  1. white, bright and colourless, reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light
    Synonyms: آق (ak), سفید (sifid)

Noun

بیاض • (beyâz) (definite accusative بیاضی (beyâzı), plural بیاضلر (beyâzlar))

  1. white, the color of snow or milk, which contains equal amounts of all visible wavelengths
    Synonym: آق (ak)
  2. whiteness, the state or quality of being white, the condition of being bright and colourless
    Synonyms: آقلق (aklık), بیاضلق (beyâzlık)
  3. copy, an identical or nearly identical duplicate of an original document, writing, letter, etc.
    Near-synonym: قوپیه (kopya)
  4. unwritten piece of paper on which imperial commands are to be written by the sovereign

Derived terms

  • بیاض اوزرنه (beyâz üzerine, “imperial order”)
  • بیاضلاتمق (beyâzlatmak, “to whiten, make white”)
  • بیاضلانمق (beyâzlanmak, “to whiten, become white”)
  • بیاضلق (beyâzlık, “whiteness”)
  • بیاضه چكمك (beyâza çekmek, “to copy out”)
  • بیاضه چیقارمق (beyâza çıkarmak, “to exonerate”)
  • سوت بیاض (süt beyâz, “milk-white”)
  • قولاق بیاضی (kulak beyâzı, “the prominence of the mastoid process”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: beyaz

Further reading

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