{"id":16,"date":"2007-11-30T20:32:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T20:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muratyaman.co.uk\/wp\/?p=16"},"modified":"2020-04-01T13:11:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T12:11:29","slug":"some-turkish-with-persian-or-arabic-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/11\/some-turkish-with-persian-or-arabic-origin\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Turkish words with Persian or Arabic origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the centuries, Turkish enriched with so many words taken from other languages, simply because of the ongoing relationships of nations. Almost every language has exchanged words. Like Latin affected most European languages, Persian affected Turkish, Indian, Arabic, Urdu, etc. Similarly Turkish had contributed to other languages as well. Below is a small list of words commonly used in daily life; some of these are used in Indian and Urdu as well.<\/p>\n<p>Aga: master<br \/>\nAmir: Arabic for prince or commander<br \/>\nBaba: Persian for father<br \/>\nBadshah (or Padshah): Persian for lord of the kings, emperor<br \/>\nBanu: Persian for lady, title for Muslim noblewomen<br \/>\nBakht (baht): Persian for fortune<br \/>\nBasit: Arabic for simple<br \/>\nCevab (cevap): Arabic for answer<br \/>\nCumle: Arabic for sentence<br \/>\nDefa: Arabic for times, repetition<br \/>\nEbat: Arabic for dimensions<br \/>\nEcel: Arabic for (predestined time of) death<br \/>\nEvvel: Arabic for before<br \/>\nFiil: Arabic for verb<br \/>\nFirman (ferman): Persian for royal command or order<\/p>\n<p>Hafiza: Arabic for memory<br \/>\nHatira: Arabic for memoir<br \/>\nHediyye: Arabic for gift<br \/>\nHuzur: Persian for presence<br \/>\nIzzat (izzet): Persian for honour<br \/>\nJang (cenk): Persian for war<\/p>\n<p>Kanun: Arabic for law<br \/>\nKhan (han, kaan): Persian for lord<br \/>\nMalik: Persian for king<br \/>\nMemleket: Arabic for country<br \/>\nMulk: kingdom<\/p>\n<p>Namaz: prayer<br \/>\nNikah: Persian for muslim marriage contract<br \/>\nPir: Muslim saint or religious leader.<br \/>\nRuzgar: Arabic for wind<\/p>\n<p>Sardar (serdar): military commander<br \/>\nSubah (sabah): Arabic for morning<br \/>\nSultan: ruler<\/p>\n<p><b>Seker:<\/b> Sugar has come from India. It started from the Sanskrit sarkara, to Persian shakar, to Arabic sukkar, to Old Italian zucchero, Old Latin succarum, Old French sukere, Middle English Sugre to finally become today&#8217;s sugar.<\/p>\n<p>Tahsil: revenue<\/p>\n<p>Wakil (vekil): Persian for agent<br \/>\nWali (vali): Persian for governor<br \/>\nWazir (vezir): Persian for minister<\/p>\n<p>Zada (zade): Persian for son<br \/>\nZaman: Persian for age, time<br \/>\nZamin (zemin): land<br \/>\nZamir: Arabic for pronoun<\/p>\n<p>.. to be continued<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_replaced_loan_words_in_Turkish\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_replaced_loan_words_in_Turkish<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linguistics\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linguistics<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.4dw.net\/royalark\/India\/glossary.htm\">http:\/\/www.4dw.net\/royalark\/India\/glossary.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the centuries, Turkish enriched with so many words taken from other languages, simply because of the ongoing relationships of nations. Almost every language has exchanged words. Like Latin affected most European languages, Persian affected Turkish, Indian, Arabic, Urdu, etc. Similarly Turkish had contributed to other languages as well. Below is a small list of words commonly used in daily life; some of these are used in Indian and Urdu as well. Aga: master Amir: Arabic for prince or commander Baba: Persian for father Badshah (or Padshah): Persian for lord of the kings, emperor Banu: Persian for lady, title for Muslim noblewomen Bakht (baht): Persian for fortune Basit: Arabic for simple Cevab (cevap): Arabic for answer Cumle: Arabic for sentence Defa: Arabic for times, repetition Ebat: Arabic for dimensions Ecel: Arabic for (predestined time of) death Evvel: Arabic for before Fiil: Arabic for verb Firman (ferman): Persian for royal command or order Hafiza: Arabic for memory Hatira: Arabic for memoir Hediyye: Arabic for gift Huzur: Persian for presence Izzat (izzet): Persian for honour Jang (cenk): Persian for war Kanun: Arabic for law Khan (han, kaan): Persian for lord Malik: Persian for king Memleket: Arabic for country Mulk: kingdom Namaz: prayer Nikah: Persian for muslim marriage contract Pir: Muslim saint or religious leader. Ruzgar: Arabic for wind Sardar (serdar): military commander Subah (sabah): Arabic for morning Sultan: ruler Seker: Sugar has come from India. It started from the Sanskrit sarkara, to Persian shakar, to Arabic sukkar, to Old Italian zucchero, Old Latin succarum, Old French sukere, Middle English Sugre to finally become today&#8217;s sugar. Tahsil: revenue Wakil (vekil): Persian for agent Wali (vali): Persian for governor Wazir (vezir): Persian for minister Zada (zade): Persian for son Zaman: Persian for age, time Zamin (zemin): land Zamir: Arabic for pronoun .. to be continued http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_replaced_loan_words_in_Turkish http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linguistics http:\/\/www.4dw.net\/royalark\/India\/glossary.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[199],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}