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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic خِنْزِير (ḵinzīr, “pig, swine”), an old borrowing from Aramaic חֲזִירָא (ḥăzīrā, “pig, swine”).
Noun
خنزیر • (hınzır) (plural خنازیر (hanazir))
- pig, swine, any of several mammalian species of the genus Sus
- Synonyms: خوك (huk), طوكوز (doñuz)
- (figuratively) pig, swine, a brutal, despicable, or disgusting fellow
- Synonym: طوكوز (doñuz)
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hınzır”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1948
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “hınzîr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 431
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خنزیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 552
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sus”, 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 1637
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خنزیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1952
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hınzır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خنزیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 867
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian خِنْزِیر (xinzīr), from Arabic خِنْزِير (ḵinzīr). First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi خنزیر (xnzyr).
Pronunciation
Noun
خِنْزِیر • (xinzīr) m (formal plural خَنَازِیر (xanāzīr), Hindi spelling ख़िंज़ीर)
- pig; swine
- Synonyms: سُؤَر (suar), خُوک (xūk)
- (derogatory, mildly vulgar) a despicable fellow; bastard; scoundrel
Declension
Declension of خنزیر
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plural
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خِنْزِیر (xinzīr)
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خِنْزِیریں (xinzīrẽ)
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خِنْزِیر (xinzīr)
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خِنْزِیروں (xinzīrõ)
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خِنْزِیر (xinzīr)
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خِنْزِیرو (xinzīro)
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Derived terms
References
- ^ “خنزیر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ “خنزیر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.