باتی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *batığ (“west”),^[1] a development from *bat- (“to sink”), whence باتمق (batmak, “to sink”). Cognate with Azerbaijani batı.

Noun

باتی • (batı) (definite accusative باتیی (batıyı), plural باتیلر (batılar))

1. west, one of the four cardinal points or compass points and the opposite direction from east

   Synonym: غرب (garb)

2. west wind, zephyr, a wind that originates in the west and blows in an eastward direction

Derived terms

• باتی قره یل (batı kara yel, “west-north-west”)
• باتی لودوس (batı lodos, “west-south-west”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: batı

References

1. Clauson, Gerard (1972) “batığ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 301

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “باتی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 252
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “باتی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 98a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باتی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 231
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Favonius”, 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, Vienna, column 557
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “باتی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 626
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “batı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باتی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 315