یاردم

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From an Iranian language, perhaps Persian یار (yâr, “friend; assistant, defender, helper”);[1] compare Persian یاری (yâri, “assistance”) and یاردم (yârdom, “assistance”), the latter a reborrowing from Turkic. Cognate with Azerbaijani yardım, Bashkir ярҙам (yarźam), Kazakh жәрдем (järdem), Kyrgyz жардам (jardam), Turkmen ýardam, Uyghur ياردەم (yardem) and Uzbek yordam.

Noun

یاردم • (yardım) (definite accusative یاردمی (yardımı), plural یاردملر (yardımlar))

  1. help, aid, succour, any action given to provide assistance to a person in difficulty
    Synonyms: امداد (imdad), مدد (meded), یاری (yarı)
  2. assistance, an act of helping behavior, the result of assisting, helping, or aiding someone
    Synonyms: امداد (imdad), مساعده (müsâʼade)

Derived terms

  • دل یاردمی (dil yardımı, “good word, praise”)
  • یاردم ایتمك (yardım etmek, “to help, aid, succor”)
  • یاردم ایستمك (yardım istemek, “to ask for help”)
  • یاردمجی (yardımcı, “helper, assistant”)
  • یاردملاشمق (yardımlaşmak, “to help one another”)
  • یاردمه یتیشمك (yardıma yetişmek, “to come to someone's aid”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: yardım
  • → Armenian: եարտըմ (eartəm), եարտում (eartum), յարդում (yardum)
  • → Bulgarian: ярдъ́м (jardǎ́m)
  • → Greek: γιαρντίμι (giarntími)
  • → Laz: ჲარდუმი (yardumi)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: jàrdum / ја̀рдум, ја̑рдьм

References

  1. ^ Sevortjan, E. V., Levitskaja, L. S. (1989) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow: Nauka, pages 142-143

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