میجر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِيجَر (mījar, “instrument to make intake orally”).

Noun

میجر • (micer)

1. sort of funnel used to introduce medicines into special parts of the mouth

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “میجر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 5068
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “میجر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2051