اكسر

See also: أكسر and اکشر

Arabic

Verb

اِكْسِرْ • (iksir) (form I) /ik.sir/

  1. second-person masculine singular imperative of كَسَرَ (kasara)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian یکسر (yeksar, one-headed), a compound of یک (yek, one) + سر (sar, head).

Noun

اكسر • (ekser)

  1. spike, a sort of very large nail, especially one over ten inches

Derived terms

  • اكسر اورمق (esker urmak, to nail)
  • اكسر كسمك (ekser kesmek, to make nails)
  • اكسرجی (ekserci, maker or seller of spikes)
  • اكسرلتمك (ekserletmek, to cause or let be nailed)
  • اكسرلمك (ekserlemek, to nail)
  • اكسرلنمك (ekserlenmek, to be nailed)

Descendants

  • Turkish: ekser
  • Armenian: էքսէր (ēkʻsēr)
  • Bulgarian: ексе́р (eksér)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ѐксер
    Latin script: èkser

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