تره
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- تره اوتی (tere otu)
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian تره (tara, “garden herb”), from Middle Persian [script needed] (tlk’ /tarrag/, “vegetable”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛˈɾɛ/
Noun
تره • (tere) (definite accusative ترهیی (tereyi), plural ترهلر (tereler))
- cress, especially the garden cress, a plant of the species Lepidium sativum whose leaves are used in salads
- Synonym: رشاد (reşâd)
Derived terms
- تره یاغی (tere yağı, “fresh butter”)
- صو ترهسی (su teresi, “watercress”)
- فرنك ترهسی (frenk teresi, “nasturtium”)
Descendants
- Turkish: tere, tere otu
- → Armenian: թառա (tʻaṙa), թէրէ (tʻērē)
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “تره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 463
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tere1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4749
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تره”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 153b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 365
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Nasturtium”, 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 1117
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 1165
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tere”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 540
Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian [script needed] (tlk’ /tarrag/, “vegetable”), from [script needed] (tl’ /tarr/, “wet, moist”), compare تر (tar, “wet”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /ta.ˈɾa/, /taɾ.ˈɾa/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰä.ɾä], [t̪ʰär.rä]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰæ.ɹe], [t̪ʰæɹ.ɹe]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰä.ɾä], [t̪ʰäɾ.ɾä]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | tara, tarra |
| Dari reading? | tara, tarra |
| Iranian reading? | tara, tarre |
| Tajik reading? | tara, tarra |
Noun
ترهها • (tarre, tare)
- (archaic) garden herb in general, especially beets, spinach, cresses, leek, parsley, pot-herb
- (Iran) Iranian leek, Persian leek (Allium ampeloprasum subsp. persicum, a specific cultivar of the great-headed garlic, Allium ampeloprasum)
Derived terms
- ترهفرنگی (tare-farangi)