آلتون

Ottoman Turkish

آلتون

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *altun (“gold”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰞𐱃𐰆𐰣 (l¹t¹un¹ /⁠altun⁠/), Azerbaijani altun, Bashkir алтын (altın), Chuvash ылтӑн (ylt̬ăn), Kazakh алтын (altyn), Kyrgyz алтын (altın), Turkmen altyn, Uyghur ئالتۇن (altun) and Uzbek oltin.

Noun

آلتون • (altın, altun)

1. gold, a heavy yellow elemental metal of great value

   Synonyms: ذهب (zeheb), زر (zer)

2. gold coin, any coin made of gold or similar metal

Derived terms

• آلتون اوتی (altın otu, “hart's-tongue fern”)
• آلتون توزی (altın tozu, “gold dust”)
• آلتون طباق (altın tabak, “buttercup”)
• آلتون طوپ (altın top, “daffodil”)
• آلتون كوكی (altın kökü, “ipecacuanha”)
• آلتون چیچكی (altın çiçeği, “buttercup”)
• آلتون یپراغی (altın yaprağı, “golden leaf”)
• آلتونجق (altıncık, “small gold coin”)
• آلتونجی (altıncı, “goldsmith; goldminer”)
• آلتونلتمق (altınlatmak, “to cause to be ornamented with gold”)
• آلتونلمق (altınlamak, “to ornament with gold”)
• آلتونلنمق (altınlanmak, “to become ornamented with gold”)
• آلتونلو (altinlı, “containing gold”)
• مجار آلتونی (macar altını, “Hungarian ducat”)
• یالدز آلتونی (yaldız altını, “sequin”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: altın
• Turkish: altın
• → Laz: ალთუნი (altuni)
• → Middle Armenian: Ալթուն (Altʻun)
  • Armenian: Ալթուն (Altʻun)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “altın1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 223
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آلتون”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 60b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آلتون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 34
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Aurum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 107-108
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آلتون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 381
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “altın”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آلتون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 183