زغر

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• زاغر (zağar), زغار (zağar), زاغار (zağar)

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish. The origin is uncertain. Compare Proto-Kartvelian *ʒ₁aɣl- (“dog”) on one end and Proto-Basque *zakur (“dog, hound”), Corsican ghjacaru (“dog”), Sardinian giagaru (“dog”) on the other.

Noun

زغر • (zağar)

1. hound, hunting dog

Descendants

• Turkish: zağar
• → Albanian: zagar
• → Middle Armenian: զաղառ (zaġaṙ), զաղար (zaġar)
  • Armenian: զաղար (zaġar)
• → Aromanian: zãgár, zãghár
• → Bulgarian: зага́р (zagár), зага́р (zagár)
• → Byzantine Greek: ζαγάριον (zagárion), ζαγάριν (zagárin)
  • Greek: ζαγάρι (zagári)
• → Macedonian: загар (zagar)
• → Serbo-Croatian: за̀га̄р / zàgār

References

• Budagov, Lazarʹ (1869–1871) Sravnitelʹnyj slovarʹ turecko-tatarskix narěčij [Comparative Dictionary of Turko-Tatar Dialects] (in Russian), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 605b
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “zağar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “1614. ZǍGÁR sb. m. (Basme, Miha, Pascu), ZAYAR (Nicolaidi)”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[1], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 192
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زغر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1009

Persian

Alternative forms

• ذغر (zeğer)

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [zɪ.ɣɪ́ɾ]

Readings
Dari reading?	ziğir

Noun

زغر • (zeğer) (Dari)

1. flax (Linum usitatissimum)

   Synonym: کتان (katân)

References

• Schapka, Ulrich, Volk, Otto Heinrich (1979) “Ein Verzeichnis von in Afghanistan gebräuchlichen Pflanzennamen”, in Afghanistan Journal, volume 6, number 1, Nr. 215 Linum usitatissimum, page 7