Where does “տառայ” come from?
տառայ (Middle Armenian) comes from Ottoman Turkish طاره, from Italian tara, from Arabic طرح, from Arabic ر, from Arabic رَأَى — to see.
Ancestry of “տառայ”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Ottoman Turkish | طاره | — |
| 2 | Italian | tara | tare; defect, vice, flaw; deficiency |
| 3 | Arabic | طرح | to throw, to cast, to fling, to toss; to discard,... |
| 4 | Arabic | ر | second-person masculine singular active... |
| 5 | Arabic | رَأَى | to see |
Words derived from “տառայ”