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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Persian ترسا.
Noun
ترسا • (tersâ)
- Christian
- Synonyms: نصرانی, خریستیان
- infidel
- Synonym: كافر
References
Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian (tlsʾk' /tarsāg/, “Christian”, literally “(God) fearer”), from (tls- /tars-/, “to fear, be afraid”) + (-k' /-ag/). See ترسیدن (tarsidan) and ـه (-e) for more. Sogdian ܬܪܣܐܩ (trsʾq /tarsāk/) is a Western Iranian borrowing.
Pronunciation
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| Classical reading?
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tarsā
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| Dari reading?
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tarsā
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| Iranian reading?
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tarsâ
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| Tajik reading?
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tarso
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Adjective
ترسا • (tarsâ)
- (archaic) Christian
Noun
ترسا • (tarsâ) (plural ترسایان (tarsâyân) or ترساها (tarsâ-hâ))
- (archaic) Christian
- 10th AD, Ferdowsi
- چو بر جامهٔ ما چلیپا بوَد
نشست اندر آیین ترسا بوَد
- 13th AD, Rumi
- گهی از زلف خود داده به مؤمن نقش حبلالله
ز پیچ جعد خود داده به ترسایان چلیپایی
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Further reading
- Bolognesi, Giancarlo (1961) “Nuovi aspetti dell'influsso iranico in armeno”, in Handes Amsorya (in Italian), volume 75, numbers 10–12, Vienna, columns 676–677
- de Blois, François (2002) “Naṣrānī (Ναζωραȋος) and ḥanīf (ἐθνικός): Studies on the Religious Vocabulary of Christianity and of Islam”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, volume 65, number 1, pages 9–10
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 82