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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic فِقْرَة (fiqra, “vertebra; paragraph”).
Noun
فقره • (fıkra) (plural فقرات (fıkarat))
- vertebra, any of the bony or cartilaginous segments which make up the backbone
- Synonyms: صرت كمیكی (sırt kemiğı), مهره (mühre)
- paragraph, a passage in text that starts on a new line, marking a change of topic
- anecdote, a short account of a real incident or person, often humorous or interesting
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “fıkra”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1575
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “fıkra”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 317
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فقره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 907
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vertebra”, 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 1742
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “فقره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3536
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “fıkra”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فقره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1392