منشار

Arabic

Etymology

Tool noun from نَشَرَ (našara, to spread; to saw), from the root ن ش ر (n-š-r).

Cognate with Hebrew מסור (masór).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /min.ʃaːr/
    • (Moroccan) IPA(key): /mun.ʃaːr/, /man.ʃaːr/

Noun

مِنْشَار (minšār) m (plural مَنَاشِير (manāšīr))

  1. saw
  2. a spot where fruits like raisins or figs are spread to dry
  3. (obsolete) winnowing fan
    Synonym: مِنْسَف (minsaf)

Declension

Descendants

  • Maltese: munxar
  • Azerbaijani: mişar
  • Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: mişar
    Central Kurdish: مِشار (mişar)
    Southern Kurdish: مِشار (mişar)
  • Persian: منشار (menšâr)
  • Spanish: almijar
  • Ottoman Turkish: منشار (minşar)
    • Turkish: minşar
  • Portuguese: almanchar, manchar, almênchar, almanxar, almeixar, almeixiar, almixar, almaxar, almexar
  • Sicilian: Muxaru
    • Italian: Muxaro

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), منشار”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 671b
  • Freytag, Georg (1837), منشار”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 280b
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), منشار”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1260a
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), منشار”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2795b
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), منشار”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 1069
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), منشار”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1133a
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), منشار”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1274a

Moroccan Arabic

Root
ن ش ر
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic مِنْشَار (minšār).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mun.ʃaːr/, /man.ʃaːr/

Noun

مُنشار or مَنشار (munšār or manšār) m (plural مناشر (mnāšar))

  1. saw

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِنْشَار (minšār, saw; winnowing fan).

Noun

منشار (minşar) (plural مناشیر (manaşir))

  1. saw, a tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances
    Synonyms: اره (erre), بچقی (bıçkı)
  2. winnowing fan, a basket in which grain is shaken in order to remove the chaff

Derived terms

  • منشاری (minşari, saw-like, serrated)

Descendants

  • Turkish: minşar

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic مِنْشَار (minšār).

Pronunciation

    • (Dari): IPA(key): /mɪnʃɒːɾ/

    Noun

    Dari منشار
    Iranian Persian
    Tajik миншор (minšor)

    منشار (menšâr) (plural مناشیر (manâšir) or منشارها (menšâr-hâ))

    1. (rare) saw
      Synonym: اره (arre)
    2. (rare) winnowing fan
    3. (rare) sawfish (Pristidae spp.)
      Synonym: اره‌ماهی (arre-mâhi)

    References

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