ارغات

Ottoman Turkish

ارغات
ارغات

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Greek εργάτης (ergátis), from Ancient Greek ἐργάτης (ergátēs).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɯɾˈɡat/

Noun

ارغات • (ırgat)

  1. labourer, manual worker
  2. capstan, windlass, winch

Derived terms

  • ارغاتلق (ırgatlık, the quality of a labourer)

Descendants

  • Turkish: ırgat
  • Albanian: argat
  • Armenian: ըրղաթ (ərġatʻ), ըռղաթ (əṙġatʻ)
  • Aromanian: argat, argatu
  • Bulgarian: арга́т (argát)
  • Macedonian: аргат (argat)
  • Romanian: argat
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: а̀ргат
    Latin script: àrgat

Further reading

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ارغات”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 68
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ارغات”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 143–144
  • Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 47
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ارغات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 69
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “ارغات”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 28
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