قیر
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قیر
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kïr (“isolated mountain; steppe, wilderness”); cognate with Azerbaijani qır, Bashkir ҡыр (qır), Chuvash хир (hir), Kazakh қыр (qyr), Kyrgyz кыр (kır), Turkmen gyr, Uyghur قىر (qir) and Uzbek qir.
Noun
قیر • (kır) (definite accusative قیری (kırı), plural قیرلر (kırlar))
- steppe, the grasslands typical of Eastern Europe and Asia, similar to prairies and savannas
- Synonym: ستهپ (step)
- wilderness, waste, uncultivated and unsettled land with wild animals and vegetation growing wild
- Synonym: یابان (yaban)
- countryside, an area located outside of cities or towns, a rural area that is not urban or suburban
Adjective
قیر • (kır)
- grey, of a grey hue, of an intermediate colour between black and white
- Synonym: بوز (boz)
- uncultivated, not cultivated by agricultural methods, not prepared for cultivation
Derived terms
- آق قیر (ak kır, “greyish white (of a horse)”)
- آل قیر (al kır, “ruddy grey (of a horse)”)
- آلا قیر (ala kır, “dappled grey (of a horse)”)
- دمیر قیر (demir kır, “iron grey (of a horse)”)
- سوت قیر (süt kır, “milk grey (of a horse)”)
- قیر آت (kır at, “grey horse”)
- قیر سرداری (kır serdarı, “chief of rural police”)
- قیر شهری (kır şehri, “Kırşehir, a city and province in Turkey”)
- قیر صاچلو (kır saçlı, “grey-haired”)
- قیر یر (kır yer, “steppe, uncultivated place”)
- قیراچ (kıraç, “uncultivated, left in fallow”)
- قیرلرده كزمك (kırlarda gezmek, “to live a nomadic life”)
- قیرچیل (kırçıl, “somewhat mixed with grey”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “قیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 590
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kır2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2614
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قیر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 380a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 997
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Planities”, 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 1305
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3822
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1505