اردل

Borrowed from Romanian Ardeal, itself from Hungarian Erdély (“Transylvania”), from erdő (“forest”) +‎ elü (“region beyond”).

اردل • (erdel)

1. Transylvania, a mountainous region in western Romania

• اردل كوكی (erdel kökü, “zedoary root”)

• Turkish: Erdel

• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اردل”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 22a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Transilvania”, 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, Vienna, column 1690
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اردل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 138
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اردل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 65
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎, 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 251