Meanings
comparative more Ottoman Turkic · superlative most Ottoman Turkic
- Synonym of Ottoman Turkish.
A generation or two after Nawa’i, over a thousand miles west, the corpus of Old Anatolian, Azeri, and then Ottoman Turkic poetry, and in time prose, was expanded.
2019, Nile Green, The Persianate World, page 303 more examples
These corps are usually discussed in literature as purely Turkic and an indication of Ottoman Turkic colonisation of the Balkans, as they allegedly only contained settlers from Anatolia.
1989, Aspects of the Development of the Bulgarian Nation, page 48Fayżî and a contemporary Iranian poet, ʻUrfî, who also wrote in India, have been judged to be the most important influences in Ottoman Turkic poetry during the following century or so, though their influences in Iran was more diluted.
2009, Marshall G.S. Hodgson, The Gunpowder Empires and Modern Times, page 80Their form of the language included significant morphological borrowings from the forms of Turkic language found west of Iran, primarily in Turkey, as well as the use of Ottoman Turkic script, orthography and lexicon. As a result, even educated native readers would have struggled to understand texts in this new hybrid language, unless they had a good knowledge of Ottoman Turkic as well as of Central Asian forms of Turkic.
2022, Barnett, Yeung et al., “The Historical Uyghur-Chinese Corpus”, in Multiethnic Societies of Central Asia and Siberia, page 18Synonyms: Ottoman Turkish
- Synonym of Ottoman Turkish.
Ottoman yedek, also discussed in TMEN 1831, is a different lexeme: It comes from yet- ‘to lead’. Original /d/ would have become /y/ in Ottoman Turkic.
1991, Marcel Erdal, Old Turkic Word Formation, page 3952 more examples
Applied to the situation in Ottoman Turkic of the prereformal period the term mixed language structure has been created and used parallelly with the terms double language system and mixture language.
1968, Acta Orientalia, page 358Their form of the language included significant morphological borrowings from the forms of Turkic language found west of Iran, primarily in Turkey, as well as the use of Ottoman Turkic script, orthography and lexicon. As a result, even educated native readers would have struggled to understand texts in this new hybrid language, unless they had a good knowledge of Ottoman Turkic as well as of Central Asian forms of Turkic.
2022, Barnett, Yeung et al., “The Historical Uyghur-Chinese Corpus”, in Multiethnic Societies of Central Asia and Siberia, page 18Synonyms: Ottoman Turkish
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSynonym of Ottoman Turkish.
proper nounSynonym of Ottoman Turkish.
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Ottoman Turkic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ottoman%20Turkic
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