غضنفر

Borrowed from Arabic غَضَنْفَر (ḡaḍanfar).

غضنفر • (gazanfer)

1. lion, any large felid of the species Panthera leo

   Synonyms: آرسلان (arslan), اسد (esed), شیر (şir), هزبر (hizebr)

2. (figuratively) lion, a strong, brave and valiant man

• Turkish: gazanfer

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gazanfer”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1658
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “gazanfer”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 337
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “غضنفر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 874
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Leo”, 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 934
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “غضنفر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3411
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “غضنفر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1346

Borrowed from Arabic غَضَنْفَر (ḡaḍanfar).

غضنفر • (ğazanfar)

1. a male given name from Arabic