ясырь
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Russian
Etymology
Via Crimean Tatar esir (“captive, prisoner”) or Ottoman Turkish اسیر (esir, “captive, prisoner”) from Arabic أَسِير (ʔasīr, “captive, prisoner”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ясы́рь • (jasýrʹ) m anim (genitive ясыря́, nominative plural ясыри́, genitive plural ясыре́й)
- (historical) a prisoner taken by Turks or Crimean Tatars (or, rarely, Cossacks during the colonization of Siberia) after a raid (from the fifteenth up to the eighteenth century)
Declension
Declension of ясы́рь (anim masc-form soft-stem accent-b)
See also
- аманат (amanat)