lordu

Sicilian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin lūridus, whence also Italian lordo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɔɾdu/
  • Hyphenation: lòr‧du

Adjective

lordu (feminine singular lorda, masculine and feminine plural lordi)

  1. dirty

Inflection

Masculine Feminine
Singular lordu lorda
Plural lordi lordi

Synonyms

Antonyms


Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɫoɾˈdu]
  • Hyphenation: lor‧du

Noun

lordu

  1. accusative singular of lord
  2. third-person singular possessive of lord

Etymology 2

From Armenian լորտու (lortu) and its dialectal forms.

Alternative forms

Noun

lordu (Hemşin)

  1. snail
    Synonym: salyangoz
  2. slug
    Synonym: sümüklü böcek
Derived terms
  • loydufes (a poisonous mushroom, literally snail-cap)

References

  • lordi”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 9, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1977, page 3088a
  • Bläsing, Uwe (1992) Armenisches Lehngut im Türkeitürkischen am Beispiel von Hemşin (Dutch Studies in Armenian Language and Literature; 2) (in German), Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, § 81, page 57
  • Bläsing, Uwe (2007), “Armenian in the vocabulary and culture of the Turkish Hemshinli”, in Hovann H. Simonian, editor, The Hemshin: History, society and identity in the Highlands of Northeast Turkey (Peoples of the Caucasus), London and New York: Routledge, page 293
  • Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § 207, page 55
  • Emiroğlu, Kudret (1989), gohlis”, in Trabzon-Maçka Etimoloji Sözlüğü [Trabzon-Maçka Etymological Dictionary] (in Turkish), Ankara, page 107b
  • Öztürk, Özhan (2005), loydu”, in Karadeniz: Ansiklopedik Sözlük [Black Sea: Encyclopaedic Dictionary] (in Turkish), volume II, Istanbul: Heyamola Yayınları, page 792a
  • Tzitzilis, Christos (1987) Griechische Lehnwörter im Türkischen (mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der anatolischen Dialekte) (Schriften der Balkan-Kommission, philologische Abteilung; 33) (in German), Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, § 301, page 82, compares to Greek λιόρδα (liórda) glossing it as "snail", but in reality this is a dialectal form of λόρδα (lórda, great hunger) and is not related
  • Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan (2018), lordu”, in Irfan Çağatay Aleksiva, editor, Titer: Hemşin Türkçesi Sözlüğü (in Turkish), Istanbul: Lazi Kültür, page 148
  • Vardanyan, Sergey (2016), “Łazaxstani, Łrłzstani ew Tʿurkʿiayi mahmedakan hamšenahayericʿ graṙvac hayeren mi kʿani baṙeri masin [About Some Armenian Words Written from Muslim Hamshentsi Armenians of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal] (in Armenian), issue 3, Yerevan: Academy Press, page 82 of 81–95
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