یاورو

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yabrïg (“young of animals”);[1] cognate with Chuvash ҫӑвӑр (śăvăr).

Noun

یاورو • (yavru) (plural یاورولر (yavrular))

  1. baby, any very young animal, especially a vertebrate
    Synonym: بچه (beçe)
  2. baby, child, a kid aged approximatively 1 to 11 years
    Synonym: بچه (beçe)
    • 1926 April 3, baby food advertisement in Hakimiyet-i Milliye, page 6:
      یاوروكز ، سعادتكزدر
      yavrunuz, saadetinizdir
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

  • قپو یاوروسی (kapu yavrusu, “wicket”)
  • یاورو آغیزی (yavru ağızı, “light pink color”)
  • یاورو چیقارمق (yavru çıkarmak, “to hatch chicks”)
  • یاوروجق (yavrucuk, “a little young one”)
  • یاورولاتمق (yavrulatmak, “to make or let litter”)
  • یاورولامق (yavrulamak, “to litter, breed, give birth”)
  • یاورولو (yavrulu, “with a young”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: yavru
  • → Armenian: յավրու (yavru), յավրի (yavri), յավրում (yavrum)
  • → Greek: γιαβρί (giavrí)

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jabrɨ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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