زغر
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Anatolian Turkish. The origin is uncertain. Compare Proto-Kartvelian *ʒ₁aɣl- (“dog”) on one end and Proto-Basque *zakur (“dog, hound”), Corsican ghjacaru (“dog”), Sardinian giagaru (“dog”) on the other.
Noun
زغر • (zağar)
- hound, hunting dog
Descendants
- Turkish: zağar
- → Albanian: zagar
- → Georgian: ზაღარი (zaɣari) — Javakheti
- → Middle Armenian: զաղառ (zaġaṙ), զաղար (zaġar)
- Armenian: զաղար (zaġar)
- → Aromanian: zãgár, zãghár
- → Bulgarian: зага́р (zagár), зага́р (zagár)
- → Byzantine Greek: ζαγάριον (zagárion), ζαγάριν (zagárin), ζαγάρι (zagári)
- Greek: ζαγάρι (zagári)
- → Macedonian: загар (zagar)
- → Serbo-Croatian: за̀га̄р / zàgār
References
- Budagov, Lazarʹ (1869–1871) Сравнительный словарь турецко-татарских наречий [Comparative Dictionary of Turko-Tatar Dialects] (in Russian), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 605b
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “zağar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “1614. ZǍGÁR sb. m. (Basme, Miha, Pascu), ZAYAR (Nicolaidi)”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot][1], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 192
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زغر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1009
Persian
Pronunciation
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [zɪ.ˈɣɪɾ]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Dari reading? | ziġir |
Noun
زغر • (zeġer)
- alternative form of زغیر (zeġīr, “flax”)