ղանթար

Armenian

Alternative forms

  • խանթար (xantʿar), կանթար (kantʿar)

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قنطار (kantar) and Azerbaijani qantar, ultimately from Arabic قِنْطَار (qinṭār).

Pronunciation

Noun

ղանթար (łantʿar) (dialectal)

  1. big scales in a marketplace
  2. (by extension) marketplace

Declension

  • Ղանթարջյան (Łantʿarǰyan)

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1902), խանթար”, in Tʿurkʿerēni azdecʿutʿiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʿurkʿerēnē pʿoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žołovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʿeamb Vani, Łarabałi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žołovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages
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