پیره

پیره

Ottoman Turkish

پیره

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bürge (“flea”); cognate with Azerbaijani birə, Bashkir бөрсә (börsä), Kazakh бүрге (bürge), Kyrgyz [script needed] (bürgö), Turkmen büre, Uyghur بۈرگە‎ (bürge) and Uzbek burga.

Noun

پیره • (pire)

1. flea, any small, parasitic insect in the order Siphonaptera

   Synonyms: برغوث‎ (burgus), كیك‎ (keyk)

2. aphid, any sap-sucking insect in the superfamily Aphidoidea

Derived terms

• پیره اوتی‎ (pire otu, “fleawort”)
• پیره‌لندرمك‎ (pirelendirmek, “to make or let become a flea”)
• پیره‌لنمك‎ (pirelenmek, “to become a flea or aphyd”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: pirä
• Turkish: pire
• → Armenian: փիրէ (pʿirē)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “pire”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3858
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “پیره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 331
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Pulex”, 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 1404
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “پیره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 986
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “pire”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “پیره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 463