پرگار

See also: پرکار

Ottoman Turkish

پرگار

Alternative forms

• پرگال (pergel)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پرگار (pargâr, “pair of compasses”).

Noun

پرگار • (perger)

1. pair of compasses, a tool for drawing accurate circles or arches

Derived terms

• پرگارلاتمق (pergerletmek, “to make or let be measured by compasses”)
• پرگارلامق (pergerlemek, “to measure with a pair of compasses”)
• پرگارلانمق (pergerlenmek, “to be measured with a pair of compasses”)
• پرگاروار (pergervar, “like a pair of compasses”)
• پرگاری (pergeri, “drawn with compasses”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: pergel
• → Egyptian Arabic: برجل (bárgal)
• → Armenian: փերգել (pʻergel), փերկել (pʻerkel)
• → Bulgarian: пергел (pergel)
• → Romanian: perghel

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pergel1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3827
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “پرگار”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 114b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پرگار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 319
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Circinus”, 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 181
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پرگار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 780
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pergel”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پرگار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 443

Persian

Alternative forms

• پرگال (pargâl)

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-Iranian. Cognate with Sogdian [script needed] (prγrs’y /⁠parγarsē⁠/, “round, oval”), Sanskrit प्रकार (prakāra, “sort, kind, form, nature, way, mode, manner”). The first element is from Proto-Iranian *pari- (“around”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“before, front”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [paɾ.ɡɑːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäɾ.ɡɑːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäɾ.ɡɑːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰäɾ.ɡɑːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰäɾ.ɡɔːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰæɹ.ɡɒːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäɾ.ɡɔɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	pargār
Dari reading?	pargār
Iranian reading?	pargâr
Tajik reading?	pargor

Noun

پَرْگار • (pargâr) (plural پرگارها (pargâr-hâ))

1. pair of compasses

Derived terms

• هفت‌پرگار (haft-pargâr)

Descendants

• → Arabic: بِرْكَار (birkār), فِرْجَار (firjār), بِرْجَار (birjār), بَرْجَل (barjal), بِيكَار (bīkār)
• → Azerbaijani: pərgar
• → Georgian: ფარგალი (pargali)
• → Middle Armenian: փարկալ (pʻarkal), փալկալ (pʻalkal)
  • Armenian: փարգալ (pʻargal)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پرگار (perger), پرگال (pergel)
  • Turkish: pergel
  • → Armenian: փերգել (pʻergel), փերկել (pʻerkel)
  • → Bulgarian: пергел (pergel)
  • → Romanian: perghel

References

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “پرگار”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press