آیغر
Ottoman Turkish
آیغر
Alternative forms
- آیغیر (ayğır)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *adgïr (“stallion”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰑𐰍𐰺 (d¹ǧr¹ /adɣïr/), Azerbaijani ayğır, Karakhanid اَذْغِرْ (aδɣïr), Kazakh айғыр (aiğyr), Kyrgyz айгыр (aygır), Turkmen aýgyr, Uyghur ئايغىر (ayghir), Uzbek aygʻir and Yakut атыыр (atıır).
Noun
آیغر • (ayğır)
- stallion, an uncastrated adult male of the species Equus caballus
- (figuratively) rampageous or indomitable person
Derived terms
- صو آیغری (su ayğırı, “hippopotamus”)
Descendants
- Turkish: aygır
- → Armenian: այղըռ (ayłəṙ)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “aygır”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 361
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “آیغر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 43
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Equus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 473
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “آیغر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 599
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “aygır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “آیغر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 299