معذار
Arabic
Noun
مِعْذَار • (miʿḏār)
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Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: mezər, mayzər (dialectal)
- → Ottoman Turkish: معذار (mizar)
- Turkish: mezer (dialectal)
- → Armenian: մեզար (mezar), միզար (mizar)
- → Persian: معذار (miʻẕār)
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Arabic مِعْذَار (miʿḏār).
Noun
معذار • (mizar)
- covering, cloak; shroud
- excuse
Descendants
- Turkish: mezer (dialectal)
- → Armenian: մեզար (mezar), միզար (mizar)
Further reading
- Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 107, incorrectly deriving from Armenian
- Karapetean, Petros Zēkʿi (1912), “معذار”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 824a
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “معذار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1906