سفسیر
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic سِفْسِير (sifsīr), from Classical Persian [Term?].
Noun
سفسیر • (sıfsır) (plural سفاسیر)
- commercial broker or agent, a mediator between a buyer and a seller
- Synonyms: دلال (tellal), سمسار (simsar)
Further reading
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Proxeneta”, 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 1394
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “سفسیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2628
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “سفسیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1062