آیغر
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- آیغیر (ayğır)
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (ayğır), from Proto-Turkic *adgïr (“stallion”).
Noun[edit]
آیغر • (ayğır)
- stallion, an uncastrated adult male of the species Equus caballus
- (figuratively) rampageous or indomitable person
Derived terms[edit]
- صو آیغری (su ayğırı, “hippopotamus”)
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: aygır
- → Albanian: hajger
- → Armenian: այղըռ (ayġəṙ)
- → Bulgarian: айгъ́р (ajgǎ́r)
- → Macedonian: ајгар (ajgar)
- → Serbo-Croatian: àjgīr／а̀јгӣр
Further reading[edit]
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “aygır”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 361
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آیغر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 43
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Equus”, 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[2], Vienna, column 473
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آیغر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 599
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “aygır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آیغر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 299