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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian لشکر (laškar, “army”), from Middle Persian lškl (/laškar/). Doublet of عسكر (ʼasker, “army; soldier”).
Noun
لشكر • (leşker) (definite accusative لشكری (leşkeri), plural لشكریان (leşkeriyan) or لشكرلر (leşkerler))
- army, a highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground operations
- Synonyms: اردو (ordu), جند (cünd), جیش (ceyiş), چری (çeri), عسكر (ʼasker)
Derived terms
- لشكر اولمق (leşker olmak, “to lead an army”)
- لشكر شكاف (leşker şikaf, “that breaks up armies”)
- لشكر شكن (leşker şiken, “who conquers armies”)
- لشكر كش (leşker keş, “general, captain”)
- لشكرگاه (leşkergah, “military camp”)
- لشكری (leşkerî, “pertaining to an army”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “leşker”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 318
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “leşker”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 656
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لشكر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1077
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Exercitus”, 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 502
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “لشكر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4170
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “leşker”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لشكر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1632