اره

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See also: آره

Mazanderani[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Particle[edit]

اره (are)

  1. yes

Ottoman Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Persian اره (arre, saw).

Noun[edit]

اره (erre)

  1. saw, a tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances
    Synonyms: بچقی (bıçkı), منشار (minşar)

Descendants[edit]

  • Turkish: erre

Further reading[edit]

Persian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *sers- (to cut off). Compare Latin serra (saw) (whence English serra), Mazanderani هره (hare, saw), and Baluchi ہرگ (harrag, saw).

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Readings
Classical reading? arra
Dari reading? arra
Iranian reading? arre
Tajik reading? arra

Noun[edit]

Dari اره
Iranian Persian
Tajik арра

اره (arre)

  1. saw

Synonyms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “اره”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 443