اگیر
Ottoman Turkish
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Alternative forms
- اگر (eğir)
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian اگیر (egir), from Ancient Greek ἄκορος (ákoros).
Noun
اگیر • (eğir)
Descendants
- Turkish: eğir
- → Belarusian: а́ер (ájer)
- → Russian: аи́р (aír)
- → Serbo-Croatian: (√ اگیر اوتی (eğir otu))
- → Ukrainian: а́їр (ájir), Ukrainian: а́єр (ájer)
- → Polish: ajer
References
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اگیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[1], Vienna, column 807
- Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 29
Persian
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Acorus_calamus_Variegatus_0zz.jpg/240px-Acorus_calamus_Variegatus_0zz.jpg)
Alternative forms
- اگر (egir)
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄκορος (ákoros).
Noun
اگیر • (egir)
- sweet flag, Acorus calamus
- Synonym: وج (vaj)
Descendants
Categories:
- Ottoman Turkish terms borrowed from Persian
- Ottoman Turkish terms derived from Persian
- Ottoman Turkish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Ottoman Turkish lemmas
- Ottoman Turkish nouns
- ota:Water plants
- Persian terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Persian terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Persian lemmas
- Persian nouns
- fa:Water plants