مهره

مهره

See also: مهرة‎

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

From Persian مهره‎ (muhra).

Noun

مهره (mühre)

1. bead or any sort of globule
2. vertebra

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: möhrə
• Ottoman Turkish: مهره‎ (mühre)
  • Turkish: mühre

References

• Pomorska, Marzanna (2013) Materials for a Historical Dictionary of New Persian Loanwords in Old Anatolian and Ottoman Turkish from the 13^th to the 16^th Century (Studia Turcologica Cracoviensia; 13)‎, Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, →ISBN, page 164

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish مهره‎ (mühre), from Persian مهره‎ (muhra).

Noun

مهره • (mühre)

1. bead or any sort of globule

   Synonyms: بونجق‎ (boncuk), یوارلاق‎ (yuvarlak), كره‎ (küre)

2. shell of a mollusk or particularly the smaller kind thereof
3. grinding shell or stone or other polishing instrument like even a plane

   Synonyms: رنده‎ (rende), پلانیه‎ (planya)

4. vertebra

   Synonyms: فقره‎ (fıkra), صیرت كمیگی‎ (sırt kemiği)

   ‏مهره كمیكلری‎

   mühre kemikleri

   vertebral column

5. articular head, the rounded bone of a joint

Derived terms

• مهره‌لمك‎ (mührelemek, “to polish”)
• مهره‌لو‎ (mühreli, “polished”)

Descendants

• Turkish: mühre

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “مهره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, pages 1252b–1253a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “مهره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5054
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Planula”, 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 1305

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Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (mwhlk' /muhrag/, “bead, vertebra, piece (in backgammon, etc.)”). Compare Parthian [script needed] (mwhrg /muhrag/). Equivalent to مهر‎ (mohr, “seal”) +‎ ـه‎ (-e). Note especially the meanings of a polished parchment or papyrus found in Arabic مُهْرَق‎ (muhraq), apart from Old Armenian մուրհակ (murhak, “deed”), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic מוהרק‎ (mūhraq, “writ”) and the many senses of Sanskrit मुद्रा f (mudrā, “seal”), from which the meanings of a bead or shell must be transferred. For comparison, one even derived, by way of an absurd literary meaning-guessing, the sense of a “mirror” for سَجَنْجَل‎ (sajanjal, “glossy papyrus leaves”), the original meaning being a hapax against copious abuse. Akin to Mazanderani میرکا‎ (mirkâ, “bead”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /muhɾa/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /mʊhɾa/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /mohɾe/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /mɵːhɾa/

Noun

مهره • (mohre) (plural مهرگان‎ (mohregân) or مهره‌ها‎ (mohre-hâ))

1. bead
2. shell of a mollusk or particularly the smaller kind thereof
3. vertebra
4. (board games) piece
5. grinding shell or stone or other polishing instrument

   Synonym: رنده‎ (rande)

Derived terms

• مهره‌دار‎ (mohre-dâr)

Related terms

• مهر‎ (mohr)

Descendants

• → Old Anatolian Turkish: مهره‎ (mühre)
  • Azerbaijani: möhrə
  • Ottoman Turkish: مهره‎ (mühre)
    • Turkish: mühre

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “مهره”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864), “مهره”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume II, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, pages 1241a–1242b