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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian سرعسکر (sar'askar, “captain, commander”); equivalent to سر (ser, “head”) + عسكر (ʼasker, “soldier”).
Noun
سرعسكر • (serʼasker) (definite accusative سرعسكری (serʼaskeri), plural سرعسكرلر (serʼaskerler))
- commander in chief, the supreme commander of the armed forces of a country
- (historical) seraskier, a title formerly given to a vizier who commanded an army
Derived terms
- سرعسكر قپوسی (serʼasker kapısı, “offices of a commander”)
- سرعسكر پاشا (serʼasker paşa, “Minister of War”)
- سرعسكرلك (serʼaskerlik, “quality, rank, or functions of a commander in chief”)
- سرعسكری (serʼaskerî, “quality, rank, or functions of a commander in chief”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “serasker”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4152
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “ser-asker”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1126
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سرعسكر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 674
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سرعسكر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2595
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “serasker”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سرعسكر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1053