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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kïsïr (“barren, sterile”) and thus related to قیصراق (kısrak, “mare”); cognate with Azerbaijani qısır, Karakhanid قِسِرْ (qïsïr), Kazakh қысыр (qysyr), Kyrgyz кысыр (kısır), Southern Altai кызыр (kïzïr) and Turkmen gysyr.
Adjective
قیصیر • (kısır)
- barren, sterile, infertile, unable to reproduce
- Synonyms: استرنك (isterenk), عقیم (akim)
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Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kısır1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2634
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قصر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 365b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قیصیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1000
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sterilis”, 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 1596
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قصر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3707
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kısır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیصیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1508