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arı.

bee

3 characters1 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

noun/aˈɾɯ/

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آری (arı), from Proto-Turkic *ārï (“bee, wasp”).

adj/aˈɾɯ/

clean, pure

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آری (arı), from Proto-Turkic *arïg (“clean, pure”) from *ạrï- (“to be clean, to clean, to purify”) + *-g. Cognate with Azerbaijani arı, Khakas арығ (arığ), Shor арығ (arïɣ), Tuvan арыг (arıg), Kazakh ару (aruw), Kyrgyz аруу (aruu), Southern Altai ару (aru), Tatar ару (aru), Tuvan арыг (arıg), Yakut ыраас (ïraas).

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