دره

دَره (dara or dərə) (definite accusative دَره‌نی or دَره‌نؽ, plural دَره‌لَر or دَره‌لار)

1. Arabic spelling of dara, dərə (“valley, canyon”)

Borrowed from Persian دره (darre, “valley; crack, fissure”).

دره • (dere)

1. valley, dale, vale, an elongated depression cast between hills or mountains

   Synonym: وادی (vadi)

2. rivulet, brook, a body of water smaller than a river usually dry in the summer

   Synonyms: جدول (cedvel), چای (çay)

3. ravine, gorge, canyon, gully, a deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides

   Synonyms: بوغاز (boğaz), حلق (halk)

• Turkish: dere
• → Armenian: տէրէ (tērē), դա̈րա̈ (därä)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dere”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1169
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دره”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 223a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 570
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vallis”, 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 1715
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2067
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dere”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 898

Borrowed from Arabic دُرَّة (durra, “single pearl”).

دره • (dürre) (plural درر (dürer) or درات (dürrât))

1. pearl-grain, a single bead made of pearl

   Synonym: اینجو دانه‌سی (inci tanesi)

• Turkish: dürre

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dürre”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1330
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “dürre”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[6] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 230
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[7] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 571
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[8], Vienna, column 2067
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[9], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 899

دره • (dará) f

1. valley
2. gorge, ravine, mountain pass, canyon

• “دره”, in Pashto Dictionary, Peshawar, Pakistan: Pukhtoogle, 2020.
• Pashtoon, Zeeya A. (2009) “دره”, in Pashto–English Dictionary, Hyattsville: Dunwoody Press

Uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to tear, split”) or *dʰel(h₂)- ("valley"), the existence of which is uncertain, see Proto-Germanic *dalą for more. Cognate with Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬭𐬈𐬥𐬁 (darenā) and Sogdian 𐫔‎𐫡 (δar-).

دره • (dare, darre)

1. valley

   Synonym: وادی (vâdi)

2. crack
3. fissure

• → Gujarati: દરા (darā)
• → Khalaj: dara
• → Ottoman Turkish: دره (dere)
  • Turkish: dere
• → Azerbaijani: dərə

• Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 344