اگیر

See also: اكبر‎, اکبر‎, أكبر‎, اكثر‎, أكثر‎, and اکثر‎

Ottoman Turkish

اگیر

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian اگیر‎ (agir), from Ancient Greek ἄκορος (ákoros).

Noun

اگیر • (eğir)

  1. sweet flag, Acorus calamus

Descendants

  • Turkish: eğir
  • → Belarusian: а́ер (ájer)
  • → Russian: аи́р (aír)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: (√ اگیر اوتی‎ (eğir otu))
    Cyrillic script: иђѝрот, ѝђирот
    Latin script: iđìrot, ìđirot
  • → Ukrainian: а́їр (ájir), а́єр (ájer)

References

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “اگیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 807
  • Meyer, Gustav (1892), “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 29

Persian

اگیر

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄκορος (ákoros).

Pronunciation

    • (Dari): IPA(key): /aɡiːɾ~ɪɡiːɾ/

    Noun

    اگیر • (agir, egir)

    1. sweet flag, Acorus calamus
      Synonym: وج‎ (vaj)

    Descendants

    • → Kazakh: айыр (aiyr), иір (iır)
    • → Middle Armenian: ակիր (akir)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: اگیر‎ (eğir), اگر‎ (eğir)
    • → Uzbek: игир (igir)
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