فنر
Mazanderani
Etymology
Cognate with Gilaki فنار (fanár, “lantern”), from Russian фонарь (fonarʹ).
Noun
فنر (fenar)
- lantern
Ottoman Turkish
فنر
Alternative forms
- فنار (fenar)
Etymology
From Arabic فَنَار (fanār), from Ancient Greek φανάριον (phanárion).
Noun
فنر • (fener)
- lantern, a protective case for a flame or light
- Synonym: فانوس (fanus)
- street lamp, any outdoor light used to illuminate a public area
- lighthouse, a tower exhibiting a light to guide sailors
- pinion of a shaft in machinery
Derived terms
- فنرجی (fenerci, “maker or seller of lanterns”)
Descendants
- Turkish: fener
- → Albanian: fener
- → Armenian: ֆանար (fanar)
- → Aromanian: finere f
- → Azerbaijani: fənər
- → Bulgarian: фене́р (fenér)
- → Crimean Tatar: fener
- → Macedonian: фенер (fener)
- → Persian: فنر (fanar), فنار (fanâr)
- → Romanian: fanar, fener, fânar, fănar
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: фѐњер
- Latin: fènjer
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “fener”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1559
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “فنر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 911
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Laterna”, 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 919
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “فنر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3551
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “fener”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “فنر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1397
Persian
Etymology 1
From Ottoman Turkish فنار (fenar), from Arabic فَنَار (fanār), from Ancient Greek φανάριον (phanárion).
Alternative forms
- فنار (fanâr)
Noun
فنر • (fanar) (plural فنرها (fanar-hâ))
- (obsolete) lantern
Noun
فنر • (fanar) (plural فنرها (fanar-hâ))
- spring (device made of flexible material)