زمهریر

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • زمهری (zemheri) — colloquial

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زَمْهَرِير (zamharīr).

Noun

زمهریر • (zemherir)

  1. intense cold; the depths of winter

Descendants

  • Turkish: zemheri, zemperi (Trabzon)
    • → Laz: ზემფერი (zemperi)
  • → Georgian: ზემჰერი (zemheri) — Chveneburi
  • → Serbo-Croatian: zemhèrije / земхѐрије, zemèrija / земѐрија, zemeríje / земери́је

References

  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “zemherir”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 1278a
  • Kowalski, Tadeusz (1930) “Zu den türkischen Monatsnamen”, in Archív Orientalni‎[1] (in German), volume 2, pages 16–17
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