𐰔𐰆
azu
Meaning:
or; or else; either … or
Examples
Translations
German:
oder; oder aber; entweder … oder
Russian:
или; иначе; либо … либо
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
və ya; ya … ya da
Turkish (Türkiye):
veya; ya … ya da
Bibliography 5
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Hendrik Boeschoten (2022) A dictionary of early middle Turkicp. 48, azup. 48, azu
azu [conj.] ‘or’ (QT₁–₃, QAt) / aḏu (QT₂) / ozu (QA); Tüš müsän ozu ög müsän ‘Are you a dream or a real appearance?’ (QA); azu ... azu ... ‘whether ... or ...’ (QT₁–₂); azu tavba berür olar üzä azu qïnayur olar[nï] ‘whether He relents towards them, or chastises them’ (QT₁) -
Dr. Jens Wilkens (2021) Handwörterbuch des Altuigurischen | Eski Uygurcanın El Sözlüğüp. 94, ¹azup. 94, ¹azu
¹azu oder, oder aber, ansonsten || veya, yoksa, ya da; andererseits || öte yandan; jedoch, vielleicht || fakat, belki
azu ... azu ... azu entweder ... oder ... oder || ya ... ya da ... ya da
azu bar übrigens || ayrıca
azu ymä oder aber, oder auch || veyahut da, ya da; vielleicht || belki
azu ymä ... azu ymä entweder ... oder || ya ... ya da
azu ymä kaltı birök jedoch || fakat -
Sergei Starostin, Anna Dybo, Oleg Mudrak (2003) Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languagesp. 316, *aŕVp. 316, *aŕV
*aŕV or: Turk. *aŕu; Jpn. *ar-.
PTurk. *aŕu or (или): OTurk. azu (OUygh.); Karakh. azu (MK); Tv. azɨ.
◊ EDT 280.
PJpn. *ar- or, perhaps (или, возможно): OJpn. arupa, aruipa; MJpn. arufa, aruifa; Tok. aruiwa.
◊ JLTT 384.
‖ JOAL 147. An interesting Turkic-Jpn. isogloss. -
Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkishp. 280p. 280
azu: ‘or’. Survives in NE Tuv. azı; elsewhere displaced by Pe. or Ar. l.-w.s or by phr. like Osm. yoksa. Türkü viii (I have made the Türkü people rich and numerous) azu: bu: savımda: igid barğu: ‘or is there anything false in these my words?’ I S 10: viii ff. azu: . . . azu: ‘either ... or’ Toyok IIIr. 1 and 4 (ETY II 178): Man. azu . . . azu Chuas. 230; M III 38, 3-6 (ii): Uyğ. viii ff. Bud. azu (in TT VIII a:zu) and azu . . . azu are common; e.g. in Suv. 135, 7-22 azu occurs twice, azu yeme twice and azuça yeme twice: Civ. azu H I 167; II 18, 59: Xak. xi azu: kalima taxyīr bayna’l-şay’ayn ‘a word (offering) a choice between two things’; hence one says üzü:m ye:gil azu: ka:ğu:n ye:gil ‘eat grapes or (aw) melon’; generally used in interrogative sentences (fi’l-istifhām); one says kelir mü: sen azu: barı:rmu: sen ‘are you coming or (am) going?’ Kaş. I 88: KB azu is common, e.g. 16, 243, 1018, 1678, 4701 (three times in questions): xiii(?) At. azu (mis-spelt in all MSS.) 448 (bun-); Tef. azu/adu/yā . . . yā adu/yā adura occur, often in questions 42-3. -
M Räsänen, I Kecskeméti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachenp. 33, s.v. trkm. āzp. 33, s.v. trkm. āz
trkm. āz ’заблудиться’, uig. mtü. usw. az ’den Weg verlieren, sich verirren, verführt werden’, kaz. äz (> čuv. as ’verdorben werden’), čuv. or, ur ’rasend werden’; atü. uig. mtü. azu ’oder’, eig. ’sich irrend’, soj. azy ’или’
Thomsen, Turcica 46; Räsänen, MTS 237—8
Vgl. jaz id. 193b
