What is the meaning of the Turkish word derveni?

It looks like a derivative of persian word derbend or derbent.
Dictionary of turkish language institude gives following meanings:
1.Narrow pass between mountains
2.Small border fortress

Originally posted by akritas Seljuk is it possible to find in the net that show the turkish text, derivation or the meaning of the word?

Well, do you mean something like an online dictionary?
I use TDK online dictionary to find etymology of a word but its available only in Turkish http://www.tdk.gov.tr/TDKSOZLUK/SOZBUL.ASP?kelime=&submit1=Ara
you can use http://www.seslisozluk.com/ as Turkish-English dictionary but it doesn't show any etymology.

derbent

To be exact 32km further my village is there a village called "Derbent" and people who live there are "y�r�k" (nomads).

Originally posted by akritas DayI your village is close in a narrow passage ?

:) uhm sorry forgot to mention where i come from, Afyon - bolvadin - �zburun

Yiannis i myself can explain it little bit, Turkic nomadic people moved time to time from place to place, the place they settled called what they did call their previous settlement. Like there where many "afshar" village's in Turkey, they just renamed them after 1923  to avoid confusing, our village's name whas also "avshar" (a Turkmen tribes-name). Also for the name "bayat", i myself have sawn 3 village's (2 of them in Afyon and other in Konya) named "Bayat" wich is another an tribe-name.

Also another thing is, when those Turkic nomadic people formed a city, they call a mountan or a place out there as "musalla tasi", you can find that name everywhere where Turkic people are or have passed, from Uyguristan (wich is in China) to Iraqi city Kirk�k, then to Istanbul-Besiktas semt (IIRC the stadium of besiktas fc is located where the people call "musalla tasi") and at last a mountan in Bulgaria whas called or is still called by local people as "Musalla tasi" (subotai wrote it somewhere in medieval history).


Edited by DayI - 08-Jun-2006 at 11:35