قیصیر

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish قصیر (qısır), from Proto-Turkic *kïsïr (“barren, sterile”). Cognate with Azerbaijani qısır, Karakhanid قِسِرْ (qïsïr), Kazakh қысыр (qysyr), Kyrgyz кысыр (kısır), Southern Altai кызыр (kïzïr) and Turkmen gysyr.

Adjective

قیصیر • (kısır)

  1. (of living beings) sterile, barren, infertile, infecund, unable to reproduce
    Synonyms: استرنك (isterenk), عقیم (ʼâkim)
  2. (of places) barren, waste, infertile, of poor fertility, not producing vegetation
    Synonyms: چوراق (çorak), قیراچ (kıraç)

Derived terms

  • قیصیر ییل (kısır yıl, “infertile year”)
  • قیصیرلق (kısırlık, “sterility”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: kısır
  • → Armenian: խըսըր (xəsər)

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