زغر
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- زاغر (zağar), زغار (zağar), زاغار (zağar)
Etymology
From Old Anatolian Turkish. The origin is uncertain. Compare Proto-Kartvelian *ʒ₁aɣl- (“dog”) on one end and Proto-Basque *zakur (“dog, hound”), Corsican ghjacaru (“dog”), Sardinian giagaru (“dog”) on the other.
Noun
زغر • (zağar)
- hound, hunting dog
Descendants
- Turkish: zağar
- → Albanian: zagar
- → Middle Armenian: զաղառ (załaṙ), զաղար (załar)
- Armenian: զաղար (załar)
- → Aromanian: zãgár, zãghár
- → Bulgarian: зага́р (zagár), зага́р (zagár)
- → Byzantine Greek: ζαγάριον (zagárion), ζαγάριν (zagárin)
- Greek: ζαγάρι (zagári)
- → Macedonian: загар (zagar)
- → Serbo-Croatian: за̀га̄р / zàgār
References
- Budagov, Lazarʹ (1869–1871) Sravnitelʹnyj slovarʹ turecko-tatarskix narěčij [Comparative Dictionary of Turko-Tatar Dialects] (in Russian), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 605b
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “zağar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007), “1614. ZǍGÁR sb. m. (Basme, Miha, Pascu), ZAYAR (Nicolaidi)”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 192
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “زغر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1009
Persian
Alternative forms
- ذغر (ḏeğer)
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (Dari Persian) IPA(key): /zɪˈɣɪɾ/
Noun
زغر • (zeğer) (Dari)
- flax (Linum usitatissimum)
- Synonym: کتان (katân)
References
- Schapka, Ulrich; Volk, Otto Heinrich (1979), “Ein Verzeichnis von in Afghanistan gebräuchlichen Pflanzennamen”, in Afghanistan Journal, volume 6, issue 1, Nr. 215 Linum usitatissimum, page 7