# آری
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ārï (“wasp, bee”); cognate with Azerbaijani arı, Chuvash тӗкӗлтура (tĕk̬ĕlt̬ura), Kazakh ара (ara), Kyrgyz аары (aarı), Turkmen ary, Tuvan ары (arı), Uyghur ھەرە (here), Uzbek ari and Yakut ыҥырыа (ıñırıa).

#### Noun

آری • (arı) (definite accusative آریی (arıyı), plural آریلر (arılar))
* bee, any flying insect of the family Apidae known for collecting pollen and producing wax and honey
    Synonym: زنبور (zenbur)

##### Derived terms

* آری بكی (arı beği, “queen bee”)
* آری دیكنی (arı dikeni, “stinger”)
* آری سوریسی (arı sürüsü, “swarm of bees”)
* آری قوشی (arı kuşu, “bee-eater”)
* آری قوغانی (arı koğanı, “beehive”)
* آریلق (arılık, “beehive”)
* اشك آریسی (eşek arısı, “hornet”)
* اوغل آریسی (oğul arısı, “white honey”)
* بر آوج آری كبی اولمق (bir avuc arı gibi olmak, “to become furious”, literally “to become like a handful of bees”)
* یابان آریسی (yaban arısı, “wasp”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: arı
* → Armenian: առը (aṙə)

#### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 41
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “arı2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 285
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آری”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 25a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 15
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Apis”, 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 70
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آری”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 151
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “arı1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 75

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *arïɣ (“clean, pure”), from *ạrï- (“clean, pure, to be clean; to clean, purify”) + *-ïg. Cognate with Azerbaijani arı, Kazakh ару (aru), Kyrgyz аруу (aruu), Southern Altai ару (aru), Tuvan арыг (arıg), Uzbek ori' and Yakut ыраас (ıraas).

#### Adjective

آری • (arı)
* clean, pure, pristine, immaculate, spotless, unsullied, free of flaws, blemishes, or imperfections
    Synonyms: پاك (pak), تمیز (temiz), خالص (halis), صفی (safi)

##### Related terms

* آریمق (arımak, “to become clean or pure”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: arı

#### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 41
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “arı1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 285
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آری”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 25a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 15
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Purus”, 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 1410
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آری”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 152
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “arı2”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 75

## Persian
### Etymology

Derived from Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾywl /⁠ēwar⁠/, “certainly, assuredly”), from Old Persian [script needed] (adi-var, “in truth, indeed”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ˈɑː.ɾeː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ˈɑː.ɾeː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ˈɑː.ɾeː]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ˈɑː]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ˈɔː.ɾeː]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ˈɒː.ɹiː]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ˈɔ.ɾe]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Adverb

آری • (âri or ârê)
* (Dari or Iran literary, dated) yes
    Synonym: آه (āh)

#### Related terms

* بلی (balē, “yes”) (Dari, Classical)
* آه (āh, “yeah”) (colloquial Dari)
* آره (âre) (Modern Iranian Spelling)
* بله (bale, “yes”) (Iran)

#### Descendants

* Urdu: آرے (āre)

### References

* ↑ Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 124