ماندره
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- مندره (mandra)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μᾰ́νδρᾱ (mándrā, “cattle barn”).
Noun
ماندره • (mandra)
- hurdle
- pen, confines for cattle and particularly sheep, dairy farm
- herd and particularly of sheep
Descendants
- Turkish: mandıra
- → Armenian: մանտռա (mantṙa)
- → Bulgarian: мандра (mandra)
- → Macedonian: мандра (mandra)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: мандра
- Latin: mandra
References
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “ماندره”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 416a
- Miklosich, Franz (1884), “mandra”, in Die türkischen Elemente in den südost- und osteuropäischen Sprachen (Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Classe) (in German), volume 35, Wien: In Commission bei Carl Gerold’s Sohn
- Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876), “ماندره”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 802c