ardala

== Turkish == === Etymology 1 === Ultimately from Old Anatolian Turkish آرداله (ardala), further etymology unknown․ Middle Armenian արտալայ (artalay) and Georgian არტალა (arṭala) are Turkic borrowings. ==== Noun ==== ardala (definite accusative ardalayı, plural ardalalar) (dialectal) (Sivas) unused part of meat (Kütahya) usable part of meat (Rize) entrails of the livestock (Niğde) ribs of the cattle (Niğde) hindlegs of cow (Kastamonu) aged and weak animal (Ordu) desolate, quiet place (Erzurum) low value livestock ==== Adjective ==== ardala (dialectal) (Ordu, Bitlis) bulky, enormous (Rize, Yozgat) thick-bodied, stupid ==== Adverb ==== ardala (dialectal) (Kütahya, Muğla) from behind, in the absence of, in absentia === Etymology 2 === Unknown, perhaps derived from art (“hind; back”). ==== Noun ==== ardala (definite accusative ardalayı, plural ardalalar) (dialectal) (obsolete) the big bell of the hindmost camel in a caravan (Gümüşhane) bell for horses and donkeys === References === “ardala”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982 Tietze, Andreas (2002, 2009), “arda II/ardala I”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), Istanbul, Vienna Tietze, Andreas (2002, 2009), “ardala II”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), Istanbul, Vienna Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “ardala”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı Seidel, Ernst (1908), Mechithar’s, des Meisterarztes aus Her, ‘Trost bei Fiebern’: nach dem Venediger Druck vom Jahre 1832 zum ersten Male aus dem Mittelarmenischen übersetzt und erläutert (in German), Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, § 74, page 130