شمشیر

From Persian شمشیر‎ (šamšir).

• (educated) IPA^(key): [ʃɛm.ˈʃiɾ]
• (common) IPA^(key): [ʃim.ˈʃiɾ]

شمشیر • (şemşir, şimşir)

1. sword, sabre

   Synonyms: (sword) سیف‎ (seyf), قلج‎ (kılıc)

• → Middle Armenian: շիմշիր (šimšir)

• IPA^(key): [ʃim.ˈʃiɾ]

شمشیر • (şimşir)

1. alternative form of چمشیر‎ (çimşir, “box tree”)

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “شمشیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 734
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Gladius”, 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 652
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “شمشیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 2860–2861
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “شمشیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1136

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (šmšyl /šamšēr/), [Book Pahlavi needed] (špšyl), 𐫢𐫜𐫢𐫏𐫡‎ (šfšyr /šafšēr/, “sword”).

Cognate with Parthian 𐫘𐫜𐫘𐫏𐫡‎ (sfsyr /safsēr/, “sword”). Compare Iranian borrowings Old Armenian սուսեր (suser, “sword”), Classical Syriac ܣܦܣܝܪܐ‎ (sap̄sērāʾ, “sword”), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic ספסרא‎, ספסירא‎ (sap̄sērāʾ, “sword”), Ancient Greek σαμψήρα (sampsḗra, “foreign sword”), and possibly Italian scimitarra (“scimitar”).

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

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /ʃamʃeːɾ/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /ʃæmʃiːɾ/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /ʃamʃeɾ/

شمشیر • (šamšir) (plural شمشیرها‎ (šamšir-hâ))

1. sword, scimitar, shamshir

• سیف‎ (seyf) (archaic)

• شمشیرزن‎ (šamširzan)

• شفشه‎ (šafše), شوشه‎ (šuše, “ingot”).

• → Bengali: শমশের (śomośer)
• → Ottoman Turkish: شمشیر‎ (şemşir, şimşir)
  • → Middle Armenian: շիմշիր (šimšir)
• → Urdu: شمشیر‎ (śamśīr)

• “spsyr”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “šafšēr”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
• M. J. Kümmel, "Sprachkontakt und Sprachwandel", 2010, page 33

Borrowed from Classical Persian شمشیر‎ (šamšēr, “scimitar”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʃəm.ʃiːɾ/, /ʃəm.ʃeːɾ/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /ʃəm.ʃiːɾ/, /ʃəm.ʃeːɾ/
• Rhymes: -iːɾ, -eːɾ
• Hyphenation: شَم‧شِیر

شمشیر or شمشیر • (śamśīr or śamśer) f (Hindi spelling शमशेर or शमशीर)

1. sword; scimitar, shamshir

   Synonym: تلوار‎ (talvār)

• شَمْشِیْرْ زَن‎ (śamśīr-zan, “swordsman”)
• شَمْشِیر زَنی‎ (śamśīr-zanī, “swordsmanship”)
• شَمْشِیرِ بَرْہَنَہ‎ (śamśīr-e-barahna, “unsheathed sword; a warrior”, literally “naked scimitar”)
• شَمْشِیر کَشِیدَہ‎ (śamśīr-e-kaśīda, “drawn scimitar”)
• شَمْشِیرِ ہِلالی‎ (śamśīr-e-hilālī, “scimitar-shaped crescent moon”)

• “شمشیر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “شمشیر”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John Thompson (1884), “شمشیر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
• “شمشیر”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.