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Burushaski
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Adjective
اسیر (asiir)
- near
References
- Bechtholdt, Astrid (2024) “asiir”, in Burushaski Hunza Dictionary (Webonary), Dallas, Texas, USA: SIL International, published 2017.
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic أَسِير (ʔasīr, “prisoner of war, captive”), from Proto-Semitic *ʔasīr- (“captive”).
Noun
اسیر • (esir) (feminine اسیره (esire), definite accusative اسیری (esiri), plural اسارا (üserâ))
- captive, prisoner of war, one who has been captured by an enemy power during or right after a conflict
- Synonyms: طالاق (dalak), طوتساق (tutsak), كرفتار (giriftâr)
- prisoner, inmate, detainee, jailbird, a person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence
- Synonyms: طوتساق (tutsak), محبوس (mahbus)
- slave, a person held in servitude as the property of another person, especially in regards to their labour
- Synonyms: طوتساق (tutsak), كوله (köle)
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “اسیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 59
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “esir1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1484
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اسیر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 38b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اسیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 94
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Captivus”, 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 150
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اسیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 227
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “esir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 116
Persian
Etymology
From Arabic أَسِير (ʔasīr).
Pronunciation
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| Classical reading?
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asīr
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| Dari reading?
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asīr
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| Iranian reading?
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asir
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asir
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Noun
اسیر • (asir) (plural اسیران (asirân) or اسرا (asrâ))
- prisoner, captive
- prisoner of war
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian اَسِیر (asīr), from Arabic أَسِير (ʔasīr).
Pronunciation
Adjective
اَسِیر • (asīr) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling असीर)
- captured
- (figuratively) suffering; stricken
- Synonym: مُبْتَلا (mubtalā)
Noun
اَسِیر • (asīr) m (formal plural اَسِیران (asīrān), Hindi spelling असीर)
- prisoner; captive (of persecution etc.)
- Synonym: قَیدی (qaidī)
- prisoner of war
Declension
| Declension of اسیر
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singular
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plural
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| direct
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اَسِیر (asīr)
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اَسِیر (asīr)
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| oblique
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اَسِیر (asīr)
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اَسِیروں (asīrõ)
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| vocative
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اَسِیر (asīr)
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اَسِیرو (asīro)
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “اسیر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “اسیر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “اسير”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.