# آرا
## Old Anatolian Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *āra (“distance; interval”).

### Noun

آرَا (ara)
* distance in space or time, gap, opening, interval

#### Derived terms

* آرَالُقْ (araluq, “gap, distance, space”)

#### Descendants

* Azerbaijani: ara
* Gagauz: ara
* Ottoman Turkish: آرا (ara), ارا (ara), اره (ara), آره (ara)
** Turkish: ara
** → Armenian: արա (ara)
** → Laz: არა (ara)

### References

* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ara”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish آرَا (ara), from Proto-Turkic *āra (“distance; interval”) and thus related to آیرمق (ayırmak, “to part; separate, choose, pick, select, distinguish”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰺𐰀 (r¹a /⁠āra⁠/), Azerbaijani ara, Bashkir ара (ara), Uzbek ora and Yakut аара (aara).

#### Alternative forms

* ارا (ara), اره (ara), آره (ara)

#### Noun

آرا • (ara)
* space of place, opening, interval, room, between two or among many things
    Synonyms: آرالق (aralık), بوشلق (boşluk), خلال (hilal), مابین (mabeyin), مسافه (mesafe)
* space of time, an interval or pause between two or among many events
    Synonyms: آرالق (aralık), فاصله (fasıla), وقت (vakt)
* (figuratively) relationship, understanding, footing between two persons

##### Derived terms

* آرا آچلمق (ara açılmak, “to break up”)
* آرا باغی (ara bağı, “septum of the nose”)
* آرا بولمق (ara bulmak, “to find an opportunity”)
* آراسز (arasız, “continuous, uninterrupted”)
* آرالاتمق (aralatmak, “to make two things separate”)
* آرالامق (aralamak, “to separate two things”)
* آرالانمق (aralanmak, “to be separated”)
* آرالق (aralık, “space, interval, opening”)
* آره‌سنده (arasında, “between, among”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: ara
* → Armenian: արա (ara)
* → Laz: არა (ara)

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ara1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 271
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آرا”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 19a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آرا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 11
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Intervallum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 852
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آرا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 123
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ara”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آرا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 55

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic آرَاء (ʔārāʔ), plural of رَأْي (raʔy).

#### Noun

آرا • (ara)
* opinion, belief, view, way of thinking
    Synonym: بیلك (bilik)
* vote, a formalized choice on legally relevant measures
    Synonym: اوی (oy)

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ara3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 273
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آرا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 11
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آرا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 56

## Persian
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʔɑː.ɾɑː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔɑː.ɾɑː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔɑː.ɾɑː]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔɑː.ɾɑː]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔɔː.ɾɔː]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʔɒː.ɹɒː]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʔɔ.ɾɔ]

### Noun

آرا • (ârâ)
* plural of رأی (ra'y)

### Verb

آرا • (ârâ)
* present stem form of آراستن (ârâstan)