اسقره
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- اسقاره (ıskara)
Etymology
From Greek σχάρα (schára, “grill, grate”), itself from Ancient Greek ἐσχάρα (eskhára, “hearth”).
Noun
اسقره • (ıskara)
- gridiron, an iron grate used for broiling meat and fish over coals
- (by extension) barbecue, the meat and fish broiled on a gridiron
- grating, a barrier that has parallel or crossed iron bars blocking a passage
- (architecture) frame of timber used for a foundation in soft ground
Descendants
- Turkish: ızgara
- → Armenian: ըսխառա (əsxaṙa)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “ızgara”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2067
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “اسقره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 90
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Craticula”, 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 297
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “اسقره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 216
- Meyer, Gustav (1892), “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 45
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “ızgara”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “اسقره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 111