اصرار

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِصْرَار (ʔiṣrār, “persistence”).

Noun

اصرار • (ısrar)

1. obstinacy, stubbornness, insistence, persistence, the state of being stubborn

   Synonyms: تمرد (temerrüd), عناد (inat)

Descendants

• Turkish: ısrar

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ısrar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2058
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “ısrâr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 474
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اصرار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 100
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Perseverantia”, 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 1285
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اصرار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 253
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اصرار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 127

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِصْرَار (ʔiṣrār).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔis.ˈɾɑːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪs.ɾɑ́ːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪs.ɾɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɪs.ɾɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔis.ɾɔ́ːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔes.ɹɒ́ːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔis.ɾɔ́ɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	isrār
Dari reading?	isrār
Iranian reading?	esrâr
Tajik reading?	isror

Noun

اصرار • (esrâr)

1. insistence; urging
2. insistence; persistence

Derived terms

• اصرار کردن (esrâr kardan)

 

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِصْرَار (ʔiṣrār).

Noun

اصرار • (isrār) m (Hindi spelling इसरार)

1. insistence, obduracy, obstinacy, persistence