پیشگیر

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• پشگیر (peşgir, peşkir)
• پیشكیر (peşgir, peşkir), پشكیر (peşgir, peşkir)
• پشكر (peşker)

Etymology

From Persian پیشگیر (piš-gir).

Noun

پیشگیر • (peşgir, peşkir)

1. towel

   Synonyms: بلوز (beluz), دستار (destar)

2. napkin, bib

Descendants

• Turkish: peşkir, dialectally also peşgir, peşker
• → Albanian: peshqir, peshkir; peshir
• → Arabic: بَشْكِير (baškīr)
• → Bulgarian: пешки́р (peškír)
• → Greek: πεσκίρι (peskíri)
• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: pêjgîr, pêşkîr

• → Macedonian: пешкир (peškir)
• → Romanian: peșchir
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: пѐшкӣр

  Latin script: pèškīr

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پیشگیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 832
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پیشگیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 993

Persian

Etymology

پیش (pêš) +‎ گیر (gir)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [peːʃ.ˈɡiːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰeːʃ.ɡíːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰeːʃ.ɡíːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰeːʃ.ɡíːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰiʃ.ɡíɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰiːʃ.ɡʲíːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰeʃ.ɡíɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	pēšgīr
Dari reading?	pēšgīr
Iranian reading?	pišgir
Tajik reading?	pešgir

Noun

پیشگیر • (pêš-gir)

1. towel
2. napkin

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: peşkir (dialectal)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پیشگیر (pîşgîr), پشگیر (peşgir, peşkir); پیشكیر (peşgir, peşkir), پشكیر (peşgir, peşkir); پشكر (peşker)
  • Turkish: peşkir, dialectally also peşgir, peşker
  • → Albanian: peshqir, peshkir; peshir
  • → Arabic: بَشْكِير (baškīr)
  • → Bulgarian: пешки́р (peškír)
  • → Greek: πεσκίρι (peskíri)
  • Kurdish:

    → Northern Kurdish: pêjgîr, pêşkîr

  • → Macedonian: пешкир (peškir)
  • → Romanian: peșchir
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пѐшкӣр

    Latin script: pèškīr

• → Zazaki: pésger

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “پیشگیر”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul