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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian اختر (axtar, “star”).
Noun
اختر • (ahter)
- (astronomy) star, a luminous celestial body made up of plasma
- Synonyms: ستاره (sitāre), نجم (necm), یلدز (yıldız)
- (figuratively) one's star, fortune, luck, chance, destiny
- Synonym: ستاره (sitāre)
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Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ahter”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 158
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اختر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 59
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Stella”, 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 1595
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اختر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 90
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اختر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 42
Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian (ʾhtl /axtar/), an ancient backformation from (ʾpʾhtl /abāxtar/, “planet”), due to a mistaken folk etymology that the first element ab- was a negative suffix, since Zoroastrianism considers the planets to be nefarious "un-stars" due to their astronomically odd behavior.[1]
Pronunciation
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axtar
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Noun
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اختر
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ахтар
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اَخْتَر • (axtar)
- (astronomy or literary) star
- Synonyms: (usual word) سِتارِه (setâre), کُوْکَب (kowkab)
c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 12”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]:ای شهنشاه بلند اختر، خدا را همتی
تا ببوسم همچو اختر خاک ایوان شما- ay šahinšāh-i buland axtar, xudā rā himmatē
tā bibōsam hamčū axtar xāk-i ēwān-i šumā - O King of Kings of soaring fortune , for God's sake just a little grace,
So that I might kiss―as do the stars―the dust of your porch.
- (literary, figurative) fortune; luck
- Synonym: بَخْت (baxt)
- اختر نیک (literary) ― axtar-e nik ― good fortune
c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 12”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]:ای شهنشاه بلند اختر، خدا را همتی
تا ببوسم همچو اختر خاک ایوان شما- ay šahinšāh-i buland axtar, xudā rā himmatē
tā bibōsam hamčū axtar xāk-i ēwān-i šumā - O King of Kings of soaring fortune , for God's sake just a little grace,
So that I might kiss―as do the stars―the dust of your porch.
- (poetic, figurative) teardrop
- Synonyms: اشک (ašk), سرشک (serešk), ارس (ars), ستاره (setâre)
c. 1911, Mohammad Hossein Âğuli Torki-ye Shirâzi, دیوان ترکی شیرازی:باز این منم که از غم روی چو ماه تو
شب تا به صبح، دیدهٔ من پر ز اختر است- bâz in man-am ke az ğam-e ru-ye ču mâh-e to
šab tâ be sobh, dide-ye man por ze axtar ast - It is me again whose eyes, out of love-sorrow for your moon-like face,
Are full of starry tears from nightfall to dawn.
- ابرنواختر (abar-now-axtar, “supernova”)
- اختر شمردن (axtar šomordan, “to stay up all night”, literally “to count stars”)
- اخترشناس (axtaršenâs, “astronomer”)
- اخترمار (axtarmâr, “astronomer”)
- اختری (axtari, “stellar”)
- بد اختر (bad axtar, “ill-fortuned”, literally “bad-star”)
- بلند اختر (boland axtar, “lucky; fortunate”, literally “high-star”)
- نواختر (now-axtar, “nova”)
References
- ^ Eilers, W. (2012 December 30) “AXTAR”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, volume III/2, page 123