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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic حَرِيص (ḥarīṣ, “greedy, covetous”).
Adjective
حریص • (haris)
- greedy, covetous, avaricious, distastefully keen or desirous, especially for something belonging to someone else
- Synonyms: آج (ac), آج كوزلی (ac gözlü)
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Descendants
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “حریص”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 651
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “haris”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1880
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “harîs”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 395
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حریص”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 504
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Avidus”, 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 104
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حریص”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1752
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “haris”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حریص”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 781
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic حَرِيص (ḥarīṣ).
Pronunciation
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harīs
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harīs
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haris
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haris
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Adjective
حریص • (haris)
- greedy; covetous
- Synonyms: پرطمع (por-tam'), آزمند (âzmand)
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