فقره

See also: فقرة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فِقْرَة (fiqra, “vertebra; paragraph”).

Noun

فقره • (fıkra) (plural فقرات (fıkarat))

1. vertebra, any of the bony or cartilaginous segments which make up the backbone

   Synonyms: صرت كمیكی (sırt kemiğı), مهره (mühre)

2. paragraph, a passage in text that starts on a new line, marking a change of topic
3. anecdote, a short account of a real incident or person, often humorous or interesting

Descendants

• Turkish: fıkra

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “fıkra”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1575
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “fıkra”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 317
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فقره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 907
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vertebra”, 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 1742
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “فقره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3536
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “fıkra”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فقره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1392