زغر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

The origin is uncertain.

Noun

زغر • (zağar)

1. hound, hunting dog

Descendants

• Albanian: zagar
• Middle Armenian: զաղար (zaġar), զաղառ (zaġaṙ)
  • Armenian: զաղար (zaġar)
• Byzantine Greek: ζαγάριον (zagárion), ζαγάριν (zagárin)
  • Greek: ζαγάρι (zagári)
• Serbo-Croatian: за̀га̄р / zàgār
• Turkish: zağar

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