سفسیر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سِفْسِير (sifsīr), possibly from Classical Persian سفسار.

Noun

سفسیر • (sifsir) (plural سفاسیر)

1. commercial broker or agent, a mediator between a buyer and a seller

   Synonyms: دلال (tellal), سمسار (simsar)

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Proxeneta”, 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^[1], Vienna, column 1394
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سفسیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 2628
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سفسیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1062