غرار
Arabic
Adjective
غِرَار • (ḡirār) pl
- plural of غِرّ (ḡirr)
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Arabic غِرَار (ḡirār).
Noun
غرار • (girar) (definite accusative غراری (girarı), plural غرارلر (girarlar))
- paucity of milk in a milch-beast, especially a camel
- paucity of consideration or respect, a very offhand way
- (of birds) feeding, the act of giving food with its beak
Further reading
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- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “غرار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[1], Vienna, column 3386
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “غرار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1339
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
غرار • (garar or gırar) (definite accusative غراری (gararı, gırarı), plural غرارلر (gararlar, gırarlar))
- alternative spelling of خرار (harar, “pannier, large sack”)
Further reading
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- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gırar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1708
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “غرار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 870
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “غرار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3386
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “غرار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1339