تیمار

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian تیمار‎ (timâr).

Noun

تیمار • (timar)

  1. care, nurture, provision
  2. a kind of Ottoman Empire fief granted by the Sultan to a spahi (سپاهی‎ (sipahi)) in exchange for his cavalryman service and cultivated by villeins who leased it from him, timar

Derived terms

  • تیمارخانه‎ (timarhane, “hospital; insane asylum”)
    • تیمارخانه‌جی‎ (timarhaneci, “nurse”)
  • تیمارلك‎ (timarlik), same as تیمار (timar)
  • تیمارجی‎ (timarcı, “who has the right to receive a rent from a timar”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: tımar
  • → Arabic: تِيمَار‎ (tīmār, “timar”) – in Egypt and the Sudan in the 19th century tamar, meaning a hospital; now only تَمَرْجِيّ‎ (tamargi, “medical orderly”)
  • → Armenian: թիմար (tʿimar)
  • → Bulgarian: тима́р (timár)
  • → English: timar
  • → Macedonian: тимар (timar)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: tìmār / тѝма̄р
  • → Spanish: timar

References

Persian

Pronunciation

  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /tiˈmɔɾ/

Noun

تیمار • (timâr)

  1. care, nurture, provision

Derived terms

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