yıldız

Significado (Inglês)

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).

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/jɯɫ.ˈdɯz/

Etimologia (Inglês)

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).