شمشیر

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See also: شمشێر and شمشير

Ottoman Turkish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Persian شمشیر (šamšir).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (educated) IPA(key): [ʃɛm.ˈʃiɾ]
  • (common) IPA(key): [ʃim.ˈʃiɾ]

Noun[edit]

شمشیر (şemşir, şimşir)

  1. sword, sabre
    Synonyms: (sword) سیف (seyf), قلج (kılıc)
Descendants[edit]
  • Middle Armenian: շիմշիր (šimšir)

Etymology 2[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

شمشیر (şimşir)

  1. alternative form of چمشیر (çimşir, box tree)

Further reading[edit]

Persian[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (šmšyl /⁠šamšēr⁠/), [Book Pahlavi needed] (špšyl), 𐫢𐫜𐫢𐫏𐫡 (šfšyr /⁠šafšēr⁠/, sword). Cognate with Parthian 𐫘𐫜𐫘𐫏𐫡 (sfsyr /⁠safsēr⁠/, sword). Compare Iranian borrowings Old Armenian սուսեր (suser, sword), Classical Syriac ܣܦܣܝܪܐ (sap̄sērāʾ, sword), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic ספסרא, ספסירא (sap̄sērāʾ, sword), Ancient Greek σαμψήρα (sampsḗra, foreign sword), and possibly Italian scimitarra (scimitar).

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Readings
Classical reading? šamšēr
Dari reading? šamšēr
Iranian reading? šamšir
Tajik reading? šamšer

Noun[edit]

Dari شمشیر
Iranian Persian
Tajik шамшер

شمشیر (šamšir) (plural شمشیرها (šamšir-hâ))

  1. sword, scimitar, shamshir

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Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  • spsyr”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “šafšēr”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
  • M. J. Kümmel, "Sprachkontakt und Sprachwandel", 2010, page 33

Urdu[edit]

شمشیر

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Classical Persian شمشیر (šamšēr, scimitar).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

شمشیر (śamśīr or śamśerf (Hindi spelling शमशेर or शमशीर)

  1. sword; scimitar, shamshir
    Synonym: تلوار (talvār)

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • شمشیر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “شمشیر”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John Thompson (1884), “شمشیر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
  • شمشیر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.