خاویار

Ottoman Turkish

خاویار

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish, from Persian خاویار (xâvyâr).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [xɑv.ˈjɑɾ]

Noun

خاویار (havyar)

  1. caviar

Descendants

Persian

Etymology

Formed in another Indo-Iranian language, equivalent to the common Ossetian кӕф (kæf, fish) compounded with well-known Romani jaro which is with their usual prejotation and cluster reduction from Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hāndrám (Sanskrit आण्ड (āṇḍa, egg)), so literally “fish-eggs”.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xɒːv(i)jɒːɾ/

Noun

خاویار (xâvyâr)

  1. caviar

Descendants

References

  1. Szemerényi, Oswald (1967), “Славянская этимология на индоевропейском фоне”, in , В. А. Меркулова, transl., Вопросы языкознания (in Russian), issue 4, pages 24–25
  2. Shukurov, Rustam (2016) The Byzantine Turks, 1204–1461 (The medieval Mediterranean; 105), Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 325
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.