عشیرت

عشیرت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic عَشِيرَة‎ (ʿašīra).

Noun

عشیرت • (aşiret) (plural عشائر‎ or عشایر‎)

1. tribe, especially a nomadic tribe

   Synonym: اویماق‎ (oymak)

Descendants

• Turkish: aşiret

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “عشیرت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 847
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “عشیرت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1302
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “aşiret”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN