Turkish words in your language

Edited by Hellios - 07-Feb-2007 at 16:38

Originally posted by pinguin   Well, we use that .   Is there any other Turk word in Spanish that you know?

Ottoman was a mixed language, and most of its vocabulary was taken from either Arabic (the most important language of the Islamic world), Persian (the lingua franca of the eastern Islamic lands, and the language of literature and court), as well as French (the up-comming lingua franca of world politics back then). The Ottoman Empire was heavily influenced by Persian literature and culture, and as Bernard Lewis put it, "the Ottoman Turks brought a form of Iranian civilization to the walls of Vienna." ("The Iranians" by Bernard Lewis published in 2001 by Tel Aviv University's Mushe Dayan Center)

Here some Persian words in Ottoman Turkish and other languages influenced by it:

• "Pasha" is derived from Persian "P�dschah", "King", which itself is derived from "Sh�h". Literary, it means "to the foot of an Emperor" (the prefix "p�d" is related to modern Persian "p�y" , "foot", and Latin "pedes"). So, a "P�dshah" is a king, but not an Emperor ("Sh�h"). The highest level is "Sh�hansh�h", "King of Kings".
  
• "Skembici" is also taken from Persian. It's root is the Persian word "Shikam", meaning "belly".
• "Cufte" - derived from Persian "Koftah" - has the root "k�bidan", meaning "to chopp meat".
  
• "djam" is derived from Persian "j�m", "cup"; it is also known from the mythical tale of "j�me jam", the "Cup of King Jamshed", very popular in medieval Persian Sufi poetry.
• "�akal", the origin of the English word "Jackal" is taken from Persian "Shgh�l"
• "�opan" ("shepperd") is taken from Persian "shab�n"; in fact, it is related to the English words "shepperd" and "sheep", as well as to the German words "Schaaf" and "Sch�fer" (by regular sound-changes of a <--> e/f <--> b)
  
• "tekke" is taken from Persian "takiyah" (to lean, to rest, to seek refuge) OR from Arabic "taqiyah" (belief). In Persian, unorthodox mosques of Shia Sufis are known as "Takiyah-Kh�na" ("house of refuge")
• "zseb"/"cep" is taken from Persian "j�b", "pocket"
• "hafta" ("week") is also taken from Persian; it has the root "haft" ("seven") and is related to the Greek word "hepta"
• "Horoz" ("cock") is taken from Persian "Khor�s"; Anatolian Turkish usually replaces the [kh]-sound with [h] or [k]; that's why even certain Turkic words, such as Khan or Tarkhan become "Han" and "Tarkan"
• "Baba" is taken from Persian "B�b�" and is related to the European version "Papa". The Persian name "B�bak" means "little father". Its more ancient version is indeed "Papa" and "Papak", as was the name of the founder of the mighty Achaemenid dynasty.
  
• "bostan" is taken from Persian "B�st�n", meaning garden. The suffix "-st�n" means "place" in Indo-Iranian languages, and thus "Bust�n" is the "place of flowers".
• "Seftalija" is taken from Persian "Shaft�lu" ("Peach"). The word "�lu" is used for many fruits, i.e. "�lug�l�s" ("cherry").
• "Secer"/"Seker" is taken from Persian "shakkar" ("suggar"). It is indeed related to the English word, as well as to the Greek word "saccharos". 
  
• "Saray" ("palace", actually "place of rest" such as in "caravansaray")
   is taken from Persian "sarr�h". "sar" means "head" and "r�h" means "way", literary it means "on the way" or, in a wider sense, "a place on the way to rest". "Caravansaray" means "a rest-place on the way for caravans")
  
• "Dushmen" is derived from Persian "Dushman", itself originally an Avestan word.
  

Edited by Zagros - 03-Apr-2007 at 21:37

"Ghayegh" is derived from Inuit "Qajaq" ...

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Originally posted by DerDoc "Pasha" is derived from Persian "P�dschah", "King", which itself is derived from "Sh�h". Literary, it means "to the foot of an Emperor" (the prefix "p�d" is related to modern Persian "p�y" , "foot", and Latin "pedes"). So, a "P�dshah" is a king, but not an Emperor ("Sh�h"). The highest level is "Sh�hansh�h", "King of Kings".

Edited by barbar - 06-Apr-2007 at 04:35

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Edited by Zagros - 03-Apr-2007 at 21:41