اوست

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *üŕ-t (“on top, high above”), derivative of *ǖŕ.

Noun

اوست • (üst)

1. top, the upper surface of anything
2. the outside surface of anything
3. the space over a thing
4. anything that is on a thing

Adjective

اوست • (üst)

1. upper, uppermost

Derived terms

• اوستلك (üstlük, “quality of being uppermost”)
• اوستلو (üstlu, “possessed of a top”)
• اوستون (üstün, “superior, dominant”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: üst
• →⇒ Armenian: իւստ ելլալ (iwst ellal)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “üst”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5057
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوست”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 188
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Superioritas”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1632
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوست”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 515–516
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “üst”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوست”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 252