قاطر

See also: فاطر

Khalaj

Noun

قاطِر (qâtır) (definite accusative قاطِرؽ, plural قاطِرلار)

Arabic spelling of qâtır (“mule”)

Declension

Declension of
	singular	plural
nominative	قاطر	قاطرلار
genitive	قاطرؽݧ	قاطرلارؽݧ
dative	قاطرقا	قاطرلارقا
definite accusative	قاطرؽ	قاطرلارؽ
locative	قاطرچا	قاطرلارچا
ablative	قاطردا	قاطرلاردا
instrumental	قاطرلا	قاطرلارلا
equative	قاطروارا	قاطرلاروارا

Persian

Alternative forms

قاتر (qâter)

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkic. Compare Azerbaijani qatır, Turkish katır, Kazakh қашыр (qaşyr), Uzbek xachir, Uyghur خېچىر (xëchir) etc. Related to Tajik хачир (xačir), which is also from the same Proto-Turkic etymon through the borrowing of Mongolian [Term?] into a Turkic language.

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /qaː.ˈtiɾ/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qɑː.t̪ʰɪɾ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [qɑː.t̪ʰɪɾ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qɔː.t̪ʰiɾ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qɒː.t̪ʰeɹ]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χä.t͡ʃʰiɾ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	qātir
Dari reading^?	qātir
Iranian reading^?	ġâter
Tajik reading^?	xačir

Noun


Iranian Persian	قاطر
Dari	قاطر
Tajik	хачир

قاطر • (qâter)

mule
Synonym: (dialectal, literary) اَستَر (astar)
- c. 1599, Bahāʾ al‐Dīn ʿĀmilī, “Section 3”, in کشکول‎^[1]:
  امیر مؤمنان علی(ع) را روزی که بر قاطری به جنگ بود، گفتند: کاش اسبی را بر همی نشستی. فرمود: من از کسی که حمله آرد، نگریزم و بر آن کس که گریزد حمله نبرم. از این رو، همین قاطر کفایتم می‌کند.
  amīr-i mu'minān (alayhi-s-salām) rā rōzē ki bar qātirē ba jang būd, guftand: kāš asbē rā bar hamē nišastī. farmūd: man az kasē ki hamla ārad, na-gurēzam u bar ān kas ki gurēzad hamla na-baram. az īn rō, hamīn qātir kifāyat-am mē-kunad.
  When the Commander of the Faithful (peace be upon him) went to battle on a mule one day, they said to him: "I wish you were sitting on a horse!" He said: "I do not flee from the one who attacks me and do not attack the one who flees. Therefore this mule is enough for me."
  (Classical Persian romanization)

Derived terms

قاطربان (qâter-bân, “muleteer”)
قاطرچی (qâter-či, “muleteer”)
قاطرخانه (qâter-xâne, “mule stable”)

Descendants

→ Khalaj: qâtır

Further reading

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “قاطر”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim