اكیر

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Ottoman Turkish

اگیر

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian اگیر (agir), from Ancient Greek ἄκορος (ákoros).

Noun

اگیر (eğir)

  1. sweet flag, Acorus calamus

Descendants

References

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اكیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 807
  • 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 29