لودوس

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek νότος (nótos).

Noun

لودوس • (lodos)

  1. the southwest wind
  2. the southwest point of the compass
  3. a southwest direction

Descendants
  • Turkish: lodos
  • → Armenian: լօտօս (lōtōs) — Constantinople
  • → Bulgarian: ло́дос (lódos), лодо́с (lodós), лодо́са (lodósa), лодо́з (lodóz), лодус (lodus), ладо́з (ladóz)
  • → Ladino: lodós
  • → Laz: ლოდოზი (lodozi), ლოდოსი (lodosi)

References
  • Blau, Otto (1868) Bosnisch-türkische Sprachdenkmäler‎, Berlin: F. A. Brockhaus, page 272
  • Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 818, pages 547–548
  • Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “lodos”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 317
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لدوس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1629
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