𐱅𐰼𐰃

täri

Meaning:
skin, hide, leather
Details:

täri denotes the skin of a person or animal, an animal hide, and leather made from it. Later historical sources also have teri and the Oghuz form däri; the meaning was subsequently extended in some varieties to the peel or outer covering of plants and fruits.

In modern languages

Select a region to see the cognate.
Language Cognate
Turkmen deri
Turkish (Azerbaijan) dəri
Turkish (Türkiye) deri
Salar tiri
Gagauz deri
Crimean teri
Uyghur tere
Uzbek teri
Kazakh teri
Nogai teri
Siberian Tatar -
Kyrgyz teri
Altai teri
Alan teri
Kumyk teri
Tatar tire
Bashkir tire
Tıva -
Khakas teer
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan) tirii
Khalaj təri
Chuvash tir

Examples

Irıq Bitig
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Translations

German:
Haut, Fell, Leder
Russian:
кожа, шкура
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
dəri
Turkish (Türkiye):
deri
  • Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish p. 531
    teri: (d-) ‘the skin, hide’ (of a human being or animal). S.i.a.m.l.g.; in SW Az., Osm., Tkm. deri. Türkü viii ff. IrkB 44 (üŋüş-): Uyğ. viii ff. Man.-A (the louse) kim kişineŋ terisinte ünüp ‘which emerges from a man’s skin’ M I 8, 14-15: Bud. (some people kill animals and) terisin soyar (so read) ‘strip off their skins’ PP 3, 3; terisin soyup U III 52, 9: Civ. yılan terisin ‘a snake’s skin’ H I 114; a.o. do. 129 (kirpi:): Xak. xi teri: al-cild ‘skin’ Kaş. III 221; III 244 (*ékki:le:-) a.o.o.: xiii(?) Tef. teri ‘skin’ 300: xiv Muh. al-cild (human skin) deri: Mel. 45, 14; té:ri: Rif. 139; al-furwa ‘a fur coat’ deri: ṭo:n 65, 7 (Rif. 166 i:çmek): Çağ. xv ff. téri deri pūst ma‘nāsına ‘skin’ Vel. 186 (quotn.); téri pūst, usually of the hides (cild) of animals or the peel (qişr) of fruits and plants San. 193r. 27 (quotns.): Xwar. xiv teri ditto Qutb 175: Kom. xiv ‘skin, hide, leather’ teri CCI, CCG; Gr. 242 (quotn.): Kıp. xiv teri: al-cild bi’l-ṣūf ‘a skin with wool on it’ İd. 38: xv al-cild teri: Kav. 61, 9; cild (inter alia) ter (sic, with a note in the margin saying that it means a skin with wool on it); Tuh. 11a. 12 naṭ‘ ‘a large piece of tanned hide’ teri do. 36b. 5.