قيصر

Borrowed from Latin Caesar, possibly through Ancient Greek Καῖσαρ (Kaîsar) and/or Aramaic קיסר (qēsar). Uses for modern monarchs are semantic loans from Russian царь (carʹ) and German Kaiser, themselves from the Latin.

• IPA^(key): /qaj.sˤar/

قَيْصَر • (qayṣar) m

1. Caesar (Roman cognomen, notably that of Gaius Iulius Caesar)

   يُولْيُوس قَيْصَر ― yūlyūs qayṣar ― Julius Caesar

2. Caesar (an epithet of Roman emperors, seen as a byname of the incumbent)

   أَعْطُوا مَا لِقَيْصَرَ لِقَيْصَرَ وَمَا لِلّٰهِ لِلّٰهِ.

   ʔaʕṭū mā liqayṣara liqayṣara wamā lillāhi lillāhi.

   Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.

قَيْصَر • (qayṣar) m (plural قَيَاصِرَة (qayāṣira) or قَيَاصِر (qayāṣir), feminine قَيْصَرَة (qayṣara))

1. Caesar (an epithet of Roman emperors, seen as a generic title)

   الْقَيَاصِرَةُ الِٱثْنَا عَشَرَ ― al-qayāṣiratu al-iṯnā ʕašara ― The Twelve Caesars (Suetonius's De Vita Caesarum)

2. tsar, czar (title of Slavic monarchs)

   قَيْصَر رُوسْيَا ― qayṣar rūsyā ― the tsar

3. Kaiser (title of German emperors)
4. Kayser, Qaisar, Caesar (title of Ottoman Sultans after the conquest of Constantinople)

• قَيْصَرِيّ (qayṣariyy, “Caesarean, tsarist”)

• كِسْرَى (kisrā)
• فِرْعَوْن (firʕawn)

• → Azerbaijani: qəysər
• → Northern Kurdish: qeyser, قەیسەر (qeyser)
• → Malay: قيصر, kaisar
  • Indonesian: kaisar
• → Classical Persian: قیصر (qaysar), قیاصره pl (qayâsira)
  • Tajik: қайсар (qaysar)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: قیصر (kayser), قیاصره pl (kayâsıra)
    • Turkish: kayser
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: क़ैसर (qaisar)

    Urdu: قَیصَر (qaisar)

  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਕ਼ੈਸਰ (qaisar)

    Shahmukhi script: قَیصَر (qaiṣar)

• → Swahili: kaisari
• → Uzbek: qaysar

قيصر (plural قيصر-قيصر or قيصر۲, informal 1st possessive قيصرکو, 2nd possessive قيصرمو, 3rd possessive قيصرڽ)

1. Jawi spelling of kaisar‎