ضمیر
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See also: ضمير
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic ضَمِير (ḍamīr, “conscience; pronoun”).
Noun
ضمیر • (zamir) (plural ضمایر (zamair))
- conscience, the ethical or moral sense of right and wrong
- Synonym: وجدان (vicdan)
- (grammar) pronoun, a type of word that refers anaphorically to a noun or noun phrase
Derived terms
- ضمیری (zamiri, “pronominal”)
Descendants
- Turkish: zamir
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zamir2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5431
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “zamîr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1403
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ضمیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 786a
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Conscientia”, 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 250
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ضمیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3052
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “zamir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ضمیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1214
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic ضَمِير (ḍamīr).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key):
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key):
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key):
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | zamīr |
| Dari reading? | zamīr |
| Iranian reading? | zamir |
| Tajik reading? | zamir |
Noun
| Dari | ضمیر |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | замир |
ضمیر • (zamir) (plural ضمایر (zamâyer) or ضمیرها (zamir-hâ))