موجور
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- մուճուր (mucur) — Armeno-Turkish
Etymology[edit]
Usually considered an Armenian borrowing: compare Armenian մճիր (mčir), մոծիր (mocir, “ash, coal dust”). See also Byzantine Greek μουντζούρα (mountzoúra, “black stain, coal stain”).
Noun[edit]
موجور • (mucur, mıcır)
- scoria, dregs
- (colloquial) coal dust, slack
- (figuratively) the useless portion of something
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մոծիր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 342a
- Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § 525, page 109
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “موجور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1243
- Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 328
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mıcır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “موجور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2025