جزیره

See also: جزيرة‎ and جزیرہ‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَزِيرَة‎ (jazīra, “island”).

Noun

جزیره • (cezire) (plural جزایر‎)

island, an area of land totally surrounded by water
Synonym: آطه‎ (ada)

Descendants

Turkish: cezire

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “cezire”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 788
Kélékian, Diran (1911), “جزیره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 440
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Insula”, 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 835
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “جزیره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1614
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “جزیره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 660

Persian

Iranian Persian	جزیره
Dari	جزیره
Tajik	ҷазира (jazira)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَزِيرَة‎ (jazīra). Displaced native گنگ‎ (gang), ‎ (xast), ‎ (âb-xast).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaziːˈɾa/

(Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaziːˈɾa/

(Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒæziːˈɾe/

(Tajik) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaziˈɾa/

Noun

جزیره • (jazire) (plural جزایر‎ (jazâyer) or جزیره‌ها‎ (jazire-hâ))

island
Synonyms: گنگ‎ (gang), خوست‎ (xast), آبخوست‎ (âb-xast)

Descendants

→ Hindustani:
Hindi: जज़ीरा (jazīrā)

Urdu: جزیرہ‎ (jazīrā)

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