بیگیر
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Persian بارگیر (bârgir, “beast of burden”), a compound of بار (bâr, “load, burden, cargo”) + گیر (gir, “carrying”).
Derived terms
- بیگیر گبی (beygir gibi, “clumsy, awkward, stupid”)
- بیگیرجی (beygirci, “renter of pack horses”)
Descendants
- Turkish: beygir
- → Armenian: պէկիր (pēkir), պէյկիր (pēykir), պէրկիր (pērkir)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “beygir”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 572
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بیگیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 303
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Caballus”, 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 129
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “بیگیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1004
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “beygir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بیگیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 424
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