# تراتور
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* تراطور, طراتور
* ترتور (teretor)

### Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from Persian تار و تور (târ o tur, “in pieces, piecemeal”). Alternatively, from some derivative of Persian تره (tarre, tare, “garden herb”), perhaps Persian تره دوغ (tara-doğ, “herbs and sour milk”). Theodoridis's tentative attempt to derive from Pontic Greek ταραχτόν (tarachtón, “not very thick colostrum”), which has been uncritically accepted in some standard references (e.g. in Eren and Stachowski), is speculative (as admitted by Theodoridis himself) due to the difference in meaning, unusual sound changes and lack of evidence that the dish entered into Ottoman cuisine from Pontus.

### Noun

تراتور • (tarator, terator, teratur)
* tarator (a sauce of pounded nuts and oil, eaten with bread)
* tarator (a kind of salad of chopped cucumber and curds, etc.)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: tarator
* → Armenian: թէռաթուր (tʻēṙatʻur), թառաթուր (tʻaṙatʻur)
* → Albanian: tarator
* → Egyptian Arabic: [script needed] (tarātor, ṭarāṭōr)
* → North Levantine Arabic: [script needed] (ṭarāṭōr)
* → Aromanian: tãrãtor
* → Bulgarian: тарато́р (taratór), търъту́р (tǎrǎtúr)
* → Cappadocian Greek: τελετόρ (teletór) — Aravani
* → Greek: ταρατόρι (taratóri)
* → Macedonian: таратор (tarator), таратур (taratur)
* → Serbo-Croatian: taratȍr / тарато̏р

### References

* ↑ Todorov, Todor At. (1999–2000) “Zur Etymologie des bulg. тарато̀р ‘eine Art kalte Suppe’”, in Балканско езикознание‎ (in German), volume 40, number 2, pages 185–187
* ↑ Todorov, T. A., Racheva, M., editors (2010), “таратор”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 7 (слòво – теря̀свам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 817
* ↑ Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “تار و تور”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 274
* ↑ Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “terator”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 138
* ↑ Theodoridis, Dimitri (1974) “Türkeitürkisch tarator”, in Folia Orientalia‎ (in German), volume 15, Kraków, pages 69–76
* ↑ Eren, Hasan (1999) “tarator”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language]‎ (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, pages 394–395
* ↑ Stachowski, Marek (2019) “tarator”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →DOI, page 322a

### Further reading

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1951) “թէռաթուր”, in Ewropakan pʻoxaṙeal baṙer hayerēni mēǰ [European Loanwords in Armenian] (Azgayin matenadaran; 166) (in Armenian), published from the author's manuscript submitted in 1921, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 80a, suspects an Italian origin
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تراتور”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 151
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تراطور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 358b
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ترتور”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1142
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2017) “tarator”, in Nişanyan Sözlük, retrieved 2012-05-05, derives from Venetan trator (“trattoria owner”)
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تراتور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 524
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طراتور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1234