صرت
Arabic
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sïrt (“back, rear of the body”); cognate with Bashkir һірт, Crimean Tatar sırt, Kumyk сырт (sırt), Kyrgyz сырт (sırt), Southern Altai сырт (sïrt), Tatar sırt and Uzbek sirt.
Noun
صرت • (sırt)
- back, the rear of the body, especially its upper part
- the ridge of a beast's back, especially the part covered by the saddle
- the main ridge of a mountain or mountain chain
- (by extension) the back part of an object, such as a knife or sword
- the fur from the middle strip along the back of a beast's skin
Derived terms
- بالق صرتی (balık sırtı, “back of a fish”)
- صرتارمق (sırtarmak, “to set up one's back”)
- صرتلامق (sırtlamak, “to take to one's back”)
- صرتلانمق (sırtlanmak, “to become a back or ridge”)
- صرتماج (sırtmac, “top of the back”)
Descendants
- Turkish: sırt
- → Armenian: սըրթ (sərtʻ)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sırt”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4216
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صرت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 759
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Dorsum”, 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 432
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صرت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2949
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sırt”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صرت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1173
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