اكسر

See also: أكسر and اکشر

Arabic

Verb

اِكْسِرْ • (iksir) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of كَسَرَ (kasara)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian یکسر (yeksar, “one-headed”), a compound of یک (yek, “one”) + سر (sar, “head”).

Noun

اكسر • (ekser)

1. spike, a sort of very large nail, especially one over ten inches

Derived terms

• اكسر اورمق (esker urmak, “to nail”)
• اكسر كسمك (ekser kesmek, “to make nails”)
• اكسرجی (ekserci, “maker or seller of spikes”)
• اكسرلتمك (ekserletmek, “to cause or let be nailed”)
• اكسرلمك (ekserlemek, “to nail”)
• اكسرلنمك (ekserlenmek, “to be nailed”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: ekser
• → Armenian: էքսէր (ēkʻsēr)
• → Bulgarian: ексе́р (eksér)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ѐксер

  Latin script: èkser

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ekser2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1398
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اكسر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 56b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اكسر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 128
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Clavus”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 190
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اكسر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 351
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ekser”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اكسر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 173