شتر

See also: سپر‎, ستر‎, and سبز‎

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• اشتر‎ (uştur)

Etymology

From Persian شتر‎ (šotor, “camel”).

Noun

شتر • (şütür)

1. camel

   Synonym: دوه‎ (deve)

   ‏شتر بار‎ ― a camel load (about 700 pounds)

Derived terms

• شترك‎ (şütürek)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “شتر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 720
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “شتر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1116

Persian

Dari	شتر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	шутур (šutur)

این شتر خیلی کنجکاو است.‎

This camel is very inquisitive.

Alternative forms

• اشتر‎ (oštor) (archaic, dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (GMRA, ʾwštl /uštar/, “camel”), from Proto-Iranian *úštrah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *úštras.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʃuˈtuɾ/

• (Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /ʃʊˈtʊɾ/

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /ʃoˈtoɾ/

• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /ʃuˈtuɾ/

Noun

شتر • (šotor)

1. camel

Derived terms

• شترمرغ‎ (šotormorğ)
• شتربان‎ (šotorbân)
• شترخار‎ (šotorxâr)
• شترگاوپلنگ‎ (šotor-gâv-palang)
• شتر دوکوهان‎ (šotor-e do-kuhân)

Descendants

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਸ਼ੁਤਰ (śutar)

  Shahmukhi script: شتر‎ (šutar)

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “شتر”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “اشتر”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• David Neil MacKenzie (1990-12-15), “Camel”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition‎^[1], New York