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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Persian سپر (separ, “shield”).
Noun
سپر • (siper)
- shield, a broad piece of defensive armor held in hand
- Synonyms: ترس (türs), درقه (daraka), قلقان (kalkan)
- shield, anything that acts as a protection, or guard
- (printing) side smudge of ink made by type
Derived terms
- سپرجك (sipercik, “small shield”)
- سپردار (siperdar, “shield-bearer”)
- سپرلنمك (siperlanmak, “to become a shield”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سپر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 664
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scutum”, 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 1526
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سپر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 2537–2538
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سپر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1037
Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian spl (spar, “shield”), from Old Persian *𐎿𐎱𐎼 (spara-). Akin to Old Armenian ասպար (aspar), an Iranian borrowing.
Pronunciation
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| Classical reading?
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sipar
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| Dari reading?
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sipar
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| Iranian reading?
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separ
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| Tajik reading?
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sipar
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Noun
| Dari
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سپر
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| Iranian Persian
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| Tajik
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сипар
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سپر • (separ) (plural سپرها (separ-hâ))
- shield
- bumper (of a car)
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “سپر”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “سپر”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “spar”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 75