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Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *iagïr (“heavy”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰍𐰃𐰺 (ǧir¹ /agïr/), Azerbaijani ağır, Bashkir ауыр (awır), Chuvash йывӑр (jyvăr), Kazakh ауыр (auyr), Kyrgyz оор (oor), Southern Altai уур (uur), Turkmen agyr, Uyghur ئېغىر ('ëghir), Uzbek ogʻir and Yakut ыар (ıar).
Adjective
آغر • (ağır)
- heavy, weighty, ponderous, having great weight
- Synonyms: ثقیل (sekil), گران (giran), وزین (vezin)
- slow, not quick in motion, taking a long time
- Synonym: یواش (yavaş)
- (of food) heavy, indigestible, difficult to digest
- (of smell) foul-smelling, fetid, having an unpleasant odor
- (of a person) grave, serious, sedate, not cheerful
- Synonym: دولك (dölek)
Derived terms
- آغر آغر (ağır ağır, “slowly”)
- آغر باصمق (ağır basmak, “to oppress, as a nightmare”)
- آغر دللو (ağır dilli, “foul-mouthed”)
- آغر هوه (ağır hava, “unhealthy air”)
- آغرجه (ağırca, “somewhat heavy”)
- آغرلتمق (ağırlatmak, “to make heavy”)
- آغرلق (ağırlık, “heaviness”)
- آغرلمق (ağırlamak, “to treat with marks of respect”)
- آغرلندرمق (ağırlandırmak, “to cause or allow to become sedate”)
- آغرلنمق (ağırlanmak, “to become heavy”)
- قولاغی آغر (kulağı ağır, “hard of hearing”)
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Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ağır”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 136
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آغر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 49b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آغر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 23
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gravis”, 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 672
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آغر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 299
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ağır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آغر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 148