تیمار

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian تیمار (timâr).

Noun

تیمار (timar)

  1. care, nurture, provision
  2. a kind of Ottoman Empire fief granted by the Sultan to a spahi (سپاهی (sipahi)) in exchange for his cavalryman service and cultivated by villeins who leased it from him, timar

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Descendants

References

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تیمار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 1508–1509
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “تیمار”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 334a

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian (tymʾl /⁠tēmār⁠/).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? tēmār
Dari reading? tīmār
Iranian reading? timâr
Tajik reading? timor

Noun

تیمار (timâr)

  1. care; nurture; provision
    • c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels]‎:
      گروهی را سراییان می‌گفتند و پیادگان بودند از هر ولایتی آمده بودند و ایشان را سپاهسالاری باشد جداگانه که تیمار ایشان دارد و ایشان هر قومی به سلاح ولایت خویش کار کنند، ده هزار مرد بودند.
      gurōhē rā sarāyīyān mē-guftand u pīyādagān būdand az har wilāyatē āmada būdand u ēšān rā sipāhsālārē bāšad judāgāna ki tēmār-e ēšān dārad u ēšān har qawmē ba silāh-i wilāyat-i xwēš kār kunand, dah hazār mard būdand.
      One group was called the Sarāyīs. They were infantrymen who had come from every country, and they had a separate general who took care of them. Every nation of them fought with the weapons of their own country. They were ten thousand men.
  2. grief; anxiety
  3. (historical) timar (Ottoman land grant)

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