قرتال
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kārt- (“falcon, hawk”) and cognate with Azerbaijani qartal. According to Nishanyan, this root has evolved from *kara (“black”).
Noun
قرتال • (kartal)
- eagle, any of several birds of prey in the subfamily Aquilinae
Derived terms
- قرتال تویی (kartal tüyü, “eagle feather”)
- قرتال طاشی (kartal taşı, “eaglestone”)
Descendants
- Turkish: kartal
- → Armenian: խառթալ (xaṙtʻal) — Constantinople
- → Bulgarian: карта́л (kartál)
- → Northern Kurdish: qertel
- → Romanian: cartal
Proper noun
قرتال • (Kartal)
- Kartal (a neighbourhood and district of Istanbul, Turkey)
Descendants
- Turkish: Kartal
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kartal1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2449
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “قرتال”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 360b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قرتال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 953
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Aquila”, 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, column 77
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قرتال”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3663
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kartal”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–), “Kartal”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قرتال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1445
- Sezen, Tahir (2017), “Kartal”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names][6], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 433