ārı

Meaning:
bee, wasp, hornet

The initial vowel was long, as is supported by reflexes preserving vowel quantity. Khalaj additionally preserves an initial h-, which has led to reconstructions with an earlier *h-.

In modern languages

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Language Cognate
Turkmen ary
Turkish (Azerbaijan) arı
Turkish (Türkiye) arı
Salar The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Gagauz ārı
Crimean The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Uyghur härä
Uzbek ari
Kazakh ara
Nogai The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Siberian Tatar The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Kyrgyz aarı
Altai adaru
Alan The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Kumyk The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Tatar The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Bashkir äre*
Tıva arı
Khakas aar
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan) The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Khalaj hāri
Chuvash The cognate has disappeared from this language.

* Meaning shifted

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Translations

German:
Biene, Wespe, Hornisse
Russian:
пчела, оса, шершень
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
arı; eşşəkarısı
Turkish (Türkiye):
arı; yaban arısı, eşek arısı

  • Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish pp. 196b–197a
    arı: a large stinging insect, ‘bee, wasp, hornet’. S.i.a.m.l.g. w. minor phonetic changes (a:r, ara, etc.); in some the particular kind of insect is defined by an Attribute, e.g. Osm. bal arısı ‘honey bee’. Xak. xi arı: al-zanbūr ‘hornet, wasp’, etc. This agrees (wafaqat) with Ar. because al-ary means ‘honey’ (al-ʿasal) in Ar., but in Turkish ‘the source of honey’ (mā yatawalladu'l-asal minhu); and the Çigil Turks call ‘honey’ arı: yağı: samnu'l-nahl ‘bee’s oil’ Kaş. I 87; a.o. II 329, 10 and 13; III 156 (ba:l); 276, 19: xiii(?) At. ʿasal kayda erse bile arısı ‘wherever there is honey there is a bee with it’, 439: xiv Muh. al-zanbūr arı: Mel. 74, 8; Rif. 177: Çağ. xv ff. arı (spelt) zanbūr San. 37v. 11 (quotns.): Xwar. xiv arı ‘bee’ Qutb 11; MN 10: Kip. xiii al-nahl aru: Hou. 10, 11: xiv aru: both al-nahl wa’l-zanbūr; and if they mean ‘bee’ specifically (bi-ʿaynihi) they say ba:l arusı: Id. 10; al-nahl aru: (al-zanbūr kökün) Bul. 11, 1: xv Kav. 62, 19 (ba:l).
  • M Räsänen, I Kecskeméti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen pp. 25b–26a
    *(h)āryγ: otü. (Le Coq) hāry ‘Biene, Wespe’, tar. (Radi., Borovkov) härrä ‘Biene’, leb. aryγ, oir. tel. arū, sag. usw. ār, kzk. küär. ara, čag. usw. ary ~ finn. (UAW 18) paarma ‘Bremse’ usw.