yıldız

Meaning

  1. star
  2. A widely-known person; a celebrity.
  3. Actors in leading roles in movies, television shows and other dramatic media.
  4. An asterisk (*).
  5. A symbol used to rate quality, notably used for hotels, with ratings from 1 (poor quality) to 5 stars (top quality).

Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/jɯɫ.ˈdɯz/
Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish یلدز (yıldız), from Proto-Turkic *yulduŕ (“star”). A relation with Erendiz (“Jupiter, Libra”) and dialectal Sekendiz (“Saturn”) is possible if yıldız is analyzed as *yal- (“to burn, blaze”) + -dız (an unknown suffix used in constellation names).

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