araba

Meaning

1. car
2. cart
3. carriage

Concepts

car

🚗

vehicle

automobile

transport

cab

cart

machine

hackney-coach

conveyance

araba

motor car

tram

🚊

voice mail

wain

hackney coach

auto mechanic

telega

Wain

automobile

auto

carrion

chariot

instrument

jamjar

motorcar

motor-car

motor vehicle

private car

single-minded

Synonyms

otomobil

oto

seyyare

taşıt

iki tekerlekli araba

Translations

voiture

🚗

Auto

🚗

macchina

Wagen

coche

🚗

carro

automobile

αυτοκίνητο

سيارة

carro

auto

🚗

auto

carrus

automóvil

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɑ.ɾɑ.ˈbɑ/

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish: عربه

Cognate with Uzbek: arava

Cognate with Tajik: ароба

Cognate with Uyghur: ھارۋا

Cognate with Kazakh: арба

Cognate with Kyrgyz: арба

Cognate with Chuvash: урапа

Cognate with Bashkir: арба

Cognate with Tatar: арба

In summary

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish عربه (araba). Ultimate origin uncertain. Originally intended to mean "a two-wheeled cart" now being used generically for all kinds of vehicles and bicycles (Schwarz 1992: 393). According to Ramstedt (1905: 23), the Turkic form was borrowed into Iranian (Afgh. arabá, Shg. arōbā, Northern Kurdish erebe and erebane (“carriage, wagon”)), Arabic عَرَبَة (ʕaraba), Uralic, European and Caucasian languages. A Turkic loan relation with Burushaski arabá is also discussed by Rybatzki. Considering Doerfer (1963/1965/1967/1975), the etymology of the word seems unclear, being either of Turkic or Arabic origin. Uzbek arava was loaned into Tajik ароба (aroba) 'cart, carriage' (Doerfer 1967: 12) and Ormuri arâba 'wheel' (M29: 387). Other Turkic cognates include Uyghur ھارۋا (harwa), Kazakh арба (arba), Kyrgyz арба (arba), Taranchi hariba, as well as Chuvash урапа (urap̬a), Bashkir арба (arba) and Tatar арба (arba, “covered wagon”). Rybatzki notes that all Turkic forms are too similar with Burushaski, concluding the exact donor language can not be determined.