خنزیر

See also: خنزير

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• խընզըր (hınzır) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خِنْزِير (ḵinzīr, “pig, swine”), an old borrowing from Aramaic חֲזִירָא (ḥăzīrā, “pig, swine”).

Noun

خنزیر • (hınzır) (plural خنازیر (hanazir))

1. pig, swine, any of several mammalian species of the genus Sus

   Synonyms: خوك (huk), طوكوز (doñuz)

2. (figuratively) pig, swine, a brutal, despicable, or disgusting fellow

   Synonym: طوكوز (doñuz)

Derived terms

• خنزیرلق (hınzırlık, “piggery”)
• خنزیره (hınzıre, “sow”)
• خنزیری (hınzırî, “swinish”)

Descendants

• Turkish: hınzır

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “hınzır”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1948
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “hınzîr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 431
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “خنزیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 552
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Sus”, 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 1637
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “خنزیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1952
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “hınzır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “خنزیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 867

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian خِنْزِیر (xinzīr), from Arabic خِنْزِير (ḵinzīr). First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi خنزیر (xnzyr).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xɪn.ziːɾ/
• (Punjabic Urdu) IPA^(key): [xən.ziːɾ]
• Rhymes: -ziːɾ
• Hyphenation: خِن‧زِیر

Noun

خِنْزِیر • (xinzīr) m (formal plural خَنَازِیر (xanāzīr), Hindi spelling ख़िंज़ीर)

1. pig; swine

   Synonyms: سُؤَر (suar), خُوک (xūk)

2. (derogatory, vulgar) a despicable fellow; bastard; scoundrel

Declension

Declension of خنزیر

	singular	plural
direct	خِنْزِیر (xinzīr)	خِنْزِیر (xinzīr)
oblique	خِنْزِیر (xinzīr)	خِنْزِیروں (xinzīrõ)
vocative	خِنْزِیر (xinzīr)	خِنْزِیرو (xinzīro)

Derived terms

• خِنْزِیر کَا بَچَّہ (xinzīr kā bacca, “son of a pig”)
• خِنْزِیر کِی اَولَاد (xinzīr kī aulād, “son of a pig”)