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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic جَزِيرَة (jazīra, “island”).
Noun
جزیره • (cezire) (plural جزایر)
- island, an area of land totally surrounded by water
- Synonym: آطه (ada)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cezire”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 788
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “cezîre”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 170
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جزیره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 440
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Insula”, 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 835
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جزیره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1614
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جزیره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 660
Persian
Dari
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جزیره
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Iranian Persian
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Tajik
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ҷазира
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Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic جَزِيرَة (jazīra). Displaced native گنگ (gang), خوست (xast), آبخوست (âb-xast).
Pronunciation
Readings
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Classical reading?
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jazīra
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Dari reading?
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jazīra
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Iranian reading?
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jazire
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Tajik reading?
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jazira
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Noun
جزیره • (jazire) (plural جزائر (jazâ'er) or جزیرهها (jazire-hâ))
- island
- Synonyms: گنگ (gang), خوست (xast), آبخوست (âb-xast)
Descendants