طياره

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ط ي ر‎ (related to flying), likely coined by Fazıl Ahmet Aykaç around 1910.

Noun

طياره • (tayyâre)

airplane

Descendants

→ Arabic: طيارة‎ (ṭayyāra)
→ Azerbaijani: təyyarə
→ Crimean Tatar: tayare
→ Persian: طیاره‎ (teyyâre)
→ Uzbek: tayora
Turkish: tayyare (later displaced by uçak)

References

Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “tayyare”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Lewis, Geoffrey (1999) The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, page 109

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