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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish مر (mır). Onomatopoeic.
Noun
mır (definite accusative mırı, plural mırlar)
- (onomatopoeia) purr (vibrating sound made by a cat when contented)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “mır mır”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1143b
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “mırmır”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mır”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3137