اورامق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *or- (“to reap, mow”); cognate with Chuvash выр (vyr), Kazakh ору (oru) and Turkmen ormak.

Verb

اورامق • (oramak)

(transitive) to reap, to cut grass or grains with a sickle
Synonym: اوراقلمق (oraklamak)
(transitive) to estimate, appraise, to calculate roughly

Related terms

اوراق (orak, “sickle”)
اوران (oran, “any measure of length”)

Descendants

Turkish: oramak

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “oramak2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3626
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اورامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 180
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اورامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 243

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