یومورطه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• یومرطه (yumurta), یومرده (yumurda), یمورطه (yumurta), یمورده (yumurda)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yumurtka (“egg”); cognate with Azerbaijani yumurta, Bashkir йомортҡа (yomortqa), Chuvash ҫӑмарта (śămart̬a), Kazakh жұмыртқа (jūmyrtqa), Kyrgyz жумуртка (jumurtka), Turkmen ýumurtga and Uzbek yumurtqa.

Noun

یومورطه • (yumurta) (plural یومورطه‌لر (yumurtalar))

1. egg, an organic vessel grown by birds, reptiles, insects, and other animals

   Synonyms: بیضه (beyza), تخم (tohum)

2. spawn, the numerous eggs released or deposited into water by aquatic animals

Derived terms

• بالق یومورطه‌سی (balık yumurtası, “fish roe”)
• یمورطالق (yumurtalık, “a town in Adana province”)
• یومورطلامق (yumurtlamak, “to lay eggs”)
• یومورطلانمق (yumurtlanmak, “to be laid (of eggs)”)
• یومورطه آقی (yumurta akı, “white (of eggs)”)
• یومورطه زاری (yumurta zarı, “amnion”)
• یومورطه صاریسی (yumurta sarısı, “egg yolk”)
• یومورطه‌جی (yumurtacı, “seller of eggs”)
• یومورطه‌لی (yumurtalı, “brooding, that lays eggs”)

Descendants

• Turkish: yumurta

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “yumurta”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5383
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “یومرطه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 515a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “یومورطه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎ (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1369
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Ovum”, 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 1230
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “یومرطه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5637
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “yumurta”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “یومورطه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2220