مارتی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • مارطی (martı), مرتی (martı), مرطی (martı)

Etymology

From the first part of Italian martin pescatore (kingfisher).

Noun

مارتی • (martı) (definite accusative مارتیی (martıyı), plural مارتیلر (martılar))

  1. seagull, mew, any seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae
    Synonym: بركه (bürke)
  2. kittiwake, either of two small gulls in the genus Rissa of the family Laridae

Derived terms

  • آق مارتی (ak martı, Alpine swift)
  • قره‌باش مارتی (karabaş martı, little gull)

Descendants

  • Turkish: martı

Further reading

  • Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “مارتی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 715
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “martı1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3066
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “مارتی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 414b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مارتی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1090
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Halcedo”, 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 685
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مارتی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 4234
  • Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 20
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “martı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مارتی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1654