اسیر

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• IPA^(key): [asiːr]

اسیر (asiir)

1. near

• Bechtholdt, Astrid (2025) “asiir”, in Burushaski Hunza Dictionary (Webonary), Dallas, Texas, USA: SIL International, published 2017.

• یسیر (yesir)

Borrowed from Arabic أَسِير (ʔasīr, “prisoner of war, captive”), from Proto-Semitic *ʔasīr- (“captive”).

اسیر • (esir) (feminine اسیره (esire), definite accusative اسیری (esiri), plural اسارا (üserâ))

1. captive, prisoner of war, one who has been captured by an enemy power during or right after a conflict

   Synonyms: طالاق (dalak), طوتساق (tutsak), كرفتار (giriftâr)

2. prisoner, inmate, detainee, jailbird, a person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence

   Synonyms: طوتساق (tutsak), محبوس (mahbus)

3. slave, a person held in servitude as the property of another person, especially in regards to their labour

   Synonyms: طوتساق (tutsak), كوله (köle)

• Turkish: esir
• → Armenian: եսիր (esir)
• → Crimean Tatar: esir
• → Serbo-Croatian: jȅsīr / је̏сӣр

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “اسیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 59
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “esir1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1484
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اسیر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 38b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اسیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 94
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Captivus”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 150
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اسیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 227
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “esir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 116

From Arabic أَسِير (ʔasīr).

اسیر • (asir) (plural اسیران, or اسرا (asrâ))

1. prisoner, captive

   Synonym: زندانی (zendâni)

2. prisoner of war

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَسِیر (asīr), from Arabic أَسِير (ʔasīr).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ə.siːɾ/
• Rhymes: -iːɾ
• Hyphenation: اَ‧سِیر
• Homophones: اَثِیر (asīr), عَثِیر ('asīr), عَسِیر ('asīr), عَصِیر ('asīr)

اَسِیر • (asīr) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling असीर)

1. captured
2. (figuratively) suffering; stricken

   Synonym: مُبْتَلا (mubtalā)

اَسِیر • (asīr) m (formal plural اَسِیران (asīrān), Hindi spelling असीर)

1. prisoner; captive (of persecution etc.)

   Synonym: قَیدی (qaidī)

2. prisoner of war

• “اسیر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “اسیر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “اسير”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.