چمشیر

Ottoman Turkish

چمشیر

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Persian شمشاد (šemšâd). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Compare Arabic شَمْشَاد (šamšād), شَمْشَار (šamšār), شَمْشِير (šamšīr), idem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t͡ʃim.ˈʃiɾ]

Noun

چمشیر (çimşir)

  1. box (Buxus sempervirens)

Derived terms

  • چمشیرلك (çimşirlik, place of box; the prince-prison)

Descendants

  • Turkish: şimşir
  • Albanian: shimshir
  • Aromanian: šimšír
  • Bulgarian: чимшѝр, чемшѝр (čimšìr, čemšìr)
  • Greek: τσιμσίρι, τσιμισίρι (tsimsíri, tsimisíri)
  • Macedonian: шимшир (šimšir)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: шѝмшир
    Latin: šìmšir

References

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), چمشیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1650
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), چمشیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2860
  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007), 1436. ŠIMŠÍR”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 179
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