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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Old Anatolian Turkish. The origin is uncertain. Compare Proto-Kartvelian *ʒ₁aɣl- (“dog”) on one end and Proto-Basque *zakur (“dog, hound”), Corsican ghjacaru (“dog”), Sardinian giagaru (“dog”) on the other.
Noun
زغر • (zağar)
- hound, hunting dog
Descendants
References
- Budagov, Lazarʹ (1869–1871) Sravnitelʹnyj slovarʹ turecko-tatarskix narěčij [Comparative Dictionary of Turko-Tatar Dialects] (in Russian), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 605b
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “zağar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “1614. ZǍGÁR sb. m. (Basme, Miha, Pascu), ZAYAR (Nicolaidi)”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 192
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زغر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1009
Persian
Etymology
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Pronunciation
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ziğir
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Noun
زغر • (zeğer) (Dari)
- flax (Linum usitatissimum)
- Synonym: کتان (katân)
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