فنر

Mazanderani

Etymology

Cognate with Gilaki ‎ (fanár, “lantern”), from Russian фонарь (fonarʹ).

Noun

فنر (fenar)

lantern

Ottoman Turkish

فنر

Alternative forms

فنار‎ (fenar)

Etymology

From Arabic فَنَار‎ (fanār), from Ancient Greek φανάριον (phanárion).

Noun

فنر • (fener)

lantern, a protective case for a flame or light
Synonym: فانوس‎ (fanus)
street lamp, any outdoor light used to illuminate a public area
lighthouse, a tower exhibiting a light to guide sailors
pinion of a shaft in machinery

Derived terms

فنرجی‎ (fenerci, “maker or seller of lanterns”)

Descendants

Turkish: fener
→ Albanian: fener
→ Armenian: ֆանար (fanar)
→ Aromanian: finere f
→ Azerbaijani: fənər
→ Bulgarian: фене́р (fenér)
→ Crimean Tatar: fener
→ Macedonian: фенер (fener)
→ Persian: فنر‎ (fanar), فنار‎ (fanâr)
→ Romanian: fanar, fener, fânar, fănar
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: фѐњер

Latin script: fènjer

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “fener”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1559
Kélékian, Diran (1911), “فنر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 911
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Laterna”, 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 919
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “فنر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3551
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “fener”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “فنر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1397

Persian

Pronunciation

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

(Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /faˈnaɾ/

(Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /fæˈnæɾ/

(Tajik) IPA^(key): /faˈnaɾ/

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish فنار‎ (fenar), from Arabic فَنَار‎ (fanār), from Ancient Greek φανάριον (phanárion).

Alternative forms

فنار‎ (fanâr)

Noun

فنر • (fanar) (plural فنرها‎ (fanar-hâ))

(obsolete) lantern

Noun

فنر • (fanar) (plural فنرها‎ (fanar-hâ))

spring (device made of flexible material)

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