اره

• IPA^(key): [ˈæːɾɛ]

اره (are)

1. yes

Borrowed from Persian اره‎ (arre, “saw”).

اره • (erre)

1. saw, a tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances

   Synonyms: بچقی‎ (bıçkı), منشار‎ (minşar)

• Turkish: erre

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “erre2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1474
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “اره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 70
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Serra”, 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, Vienna, column 1547
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “اره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 152
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “اره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 75

From Proto-Indo-European *sers- (“to cut off”). Compare Latin serra (“saw”) (whence English serra), Mazanderani هره‎ (hare, “saw”), and Baluchi ہرگ‎ (harrag, “saw”).

اره • (arre)

1. saw

• منشار‎ (menšâr)
• یوسه‎ (yuse)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “اره”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 443