افسر

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /afsaɾ/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /afsaɾ/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /æfsæɾ/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /afsaɾ/

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (’p̄ysl /abesar/). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

افسر • (afsar) (plural افسرها‎ (afsar-hâ))

1. (archaic) crown, diadem

   Synonyms: تاج‎ (tâj), کلاه‎ (kolâh), دیهیم‎ (deyhim), اکلیل‎ (eklil)

   • 10th Century CE, Ferdowsi, Shahnameh

     ‏که جاوید باد افسر و تخت او / ز خورشید تابنده‌تر بخت او‎

     ke jâvid bâd afsar o taxte 'u / ze xoršid tâbabnde-tar baxte 'u

     May his crown and throne be ever-lasting / May his fortune be brighter than the sun

• → Azerbaijani: əfsər
• → Ottoman Turkish: افسر‎ (efser)
  • Turkish: efser

• افسار‎ (afsâr, “headstall”)

Borrowed from English officer.

افسر • (afsar) (plural افسران‎ (afsarân))

1. (military, Iran) officer

   Synonym: (Dari) آفیسر‎ (âfiser)

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “افسر”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• PAHLAVICA - "’p̄ysl".
• Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 23 Nr. 99
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “افسر”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 83
• Vullers, Johann August (1855), “افسر”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume 1, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, page 112b