سپر

From Persian سپر‎ (separ, “shield”).

سپر • (siper)

1. shield, a broad piece of defensive armor held in hand

   Synonyms: ترس‎ (türs), درقه‎ (daraka), قلقان‎ (kalkan)

2. shield, anything that acts as a protection, or guard
3. (printing) side smudge of ink made by type

• Turkish: siper
• → Armenian: սիփեր (sipʿer)

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “سپر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 664
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Scutum”, 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 1526
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “سپر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 2537–2538
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “سپر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1037

From Middle Persian spl (spar, “shield”), from Old Persian *𐎿𐎱𐎼 (spara-). Akin to Old Armenian ասպար (aspar), an Iranian borrowing.

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

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /sɪpaɾ/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /sepæɾ/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /sipaɾ/
• Rhymes: -ar

سپر • (separ) (plural سپرها‎ (separ-hâ))

1. shield
2. bumper (of a car)

• سپردیس‎ (separdis)

• Urdu: سِپَر‎ (sípár)

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “سپر”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “سپر”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “spar”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 75