اسقره

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Ottoman Turkish

اسقره

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Greek σχάρα (schára, grill, grate), itself from Ancient Greek ἐσχάρα (eskhára, hearth).

Noun

اسقره (ıskara)

  1. gridiron, an iron grate used for broiling meat and fish over coals
  2. (by extension) barbecue, the meat and fish broiled on a gridiron
  3. grating, a barrier that has parallel or crossed iron bars blocking a passage
  4. (architecture) frame of timber used for a foundation in soft ground

Descendants

  • Turkish: ızgara
  • Armenian: ըսխառա (əsxaṙa)

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ızgara”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2067
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اسقره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 90
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Craticula”, 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 297
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اسقره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 216
  • Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 45
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ızgara”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسقره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 111