نیشتر

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Ottoman Turkish

نیشتر

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian نیشتر (ništar, lancet).

Noun

نیشتر (nişter, neşter)

  1. lancet, fleam, a two-edged surgical instrument used in venesection
    Synonym: مفصد (mifsad)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: neşter
  • Albanian: neshter
  • Armenian: նէշտէր (nēštēr)
  • Greek: νυστέρι (nystéri)
  • Romanian: nișter

Further reading

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Formed with a base ultimately going back to Proto-Indo-Iranian *náyȷ́žʰam.

Akin to Middle Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian նիշտր (ništr), նշտրակ (nštrak), and Classical Syriac ܐܫܬܪܟܐ (/⁠ˀštrkˀ⁠/) to be emended to ܢܫܬܪܟܐ* (/⁠*nštrkˀ⁠/).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? nīštar
Dari reading? nīštar
Iranian reading? ništar
Tajik reading? ništar

Noun

نیشتر (ništar)

  1. lancet

Descendants

References

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “նշտիր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, pages 462–463
  • Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 193
  • Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume V, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 445
  • Gippert, Jost (1993) Iranica Armeno-Iberica: Studien zu den iranischen Lehnwörtern im Armenischen und Georgischen (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte; 606. Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Iranistik; 26) (in German), Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 203
  • Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 1067, page 238
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1900) “Zur persischen lautlehre”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung (in German), volume 36, number 2, pages 163–164
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “نیشتر”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 1403
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “نیشتر”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 1442