زره

From Persian زره‎ (zere).

• IPA^(key): /zɯɾɯh/
• (late and vulgar) IPA^(key): /zɯɾh/

زره • (zırıh, zırh)

1. armour
2. coat of mail

• Turkish: zırh
• → Crimean Tatar: zırh

From Middle Persian [script needed] (zlyh /zrēy, zrēh/), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁d- (“to sound, to ring”).

Compare Avestan 𐬰𐬭𐬁𐬜𐬀-‎ (zrāδa-, “chainmail, linkings to armor”). Iranian borrowings include: Arabic زَرَد‎ (zarad), Old Armenian զրահ (zrah), Old Georgian ზარადი (zaradi), Classical Syriac ܙܪܕܐ‎ (zardā), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic זַרְדָּא‎ (zardā).

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

زره • (zere) (plural زره‌ها‎ (zere-hâ))

1. armour
2. coat of mail

• زرهپوش‎ (zerehpôš)

• → Azerbaijani: zireh
• → Hindustani:
  • Urdu: زره‎ (zirih, zirah)
• → Indonesian: zirah
• → Middle Armenian: զրեհ (zreh)
• → Ottoman Turkish: زره‎ (zırıh, zırh)
  • Turkish: zırh
  • → Crimean Tatar: zırh
• → Uzbek: zirh

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “زره”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “զրահ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “zrēh”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press