واپور

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian vapore (“steamship”).

Noun

واپور • (vapor, vapur) (definite accusative واپوری‎ (vaporu, vapuru))

  1. steamer, steamship, steamboat

Descendants
  • Turkish: vapur, bapur, bafur, bapır, babır, papur, papor
  • → Armenian: վափոր (vapʿor), վափուր (vapʿur), պաֆոռ (pafoṙ), փաֆոռ (pʿafoṙ)
  • → Georgian: ვაფორი (vapori) — Chveneburi
  • → Laz: ვაფური (vapuri), ვაფოჲი (vapoyi)
  • → Northern Kurdish: vapûr, wapor, papor
  • → South Levantine Arabic: بابور‎ (bābōr, “ship”)

References
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1951), “վափօր”, in Ewropakan pʿoxaṙeal baṙer hayerēni mēǰ [European Loanwords in Armenian] (Azgayin matenadaran; 166) (in Armenian), published from the author's manuscript submitted in 1921, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 145
  • Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912), “vapor”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 355
  • Pōzačean, Yakovbos (1841), “վափօր”, in Hamaṙōt baṙaran i tačkakanē i hay [Concise Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 871b
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890), “واپور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2120
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