List of Persian and Arabic loanwords in the Ottoman Turkish language

A blog post here (now unavailable; cache can be viewed here) from Milliyet includes a long list of words of Persian and Arabic origin in the Ottoman Turkish language (the language used in the Ottoman Empire before the language was reformed including a new script and the discarding of many loanwords) that should prove interesting not only to those interested in the language but IAL (international auxiliary language) creators as well. Note though that since many of these words are no longer used in Turkish anymore they do not constitute as much of a common ground as they used to until the beginning of the 20th century.

Also keep in mind that c in Turkish is read as j in justice, so cam (glass) is read as jam. Turkishdictionary.net is a good way to check whether a word is still in use (though it won't tell you whether a word is commonly or rarely used), as a word like cüda (isolated) doesn't exist there, though you will find it elsewhere. It's on the Turkish version of Wiktionary and can be found in the English version as well through inputting the Arabic script. In modern Turkish usually one would say something like yalnız or ayrı kalmış to mean isolated, but apparently cüda has more to do with being isolated from something one loves (family or country).

After the Persian words there is also a list of Arabic words. The title of the article is "Turkish + Persian + Arabic = Ottoman", which is probably the best way to explain the Ottoman language in a single sentence. It's kind of like what English might be like if it had a few more loanwords from Greek and was written in the Greek alphabet as well.