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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Greek βιβάριον (vivárion) or λιβάριον (livárion, “aquarium, fish tank”), itself from Latin vīvārium (“park, preserve, enclosure”).
Noun
لیوار • (livar) (definite accusative لیواری (livarı), plural لیوارلر (livarlar))
- fishpond, a small pond in communication with the sea, for keeping live fish for use
Descendants
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “لیوار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 712
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “livar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2973
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لیور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1087
- Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “livar”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 316
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “livar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لیوار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1649