آیغر

Ottoman Turkish

آیغر

Alternative forms

• آیغیر (ayğır)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (ayğır), from Proto-Turkic *adgïr (“stallion”).

Noun

آیغر • (ayğır)

1. stallion, an uncastrated adult male of the species Equus caballus
2. (figuratively) rampageous or indomitable person

Derived terms

• صو آیغری (su ayğırı, “hippopotamus”)

Descendants

• Turkish: aygır
• → Albanian: hajger
• → Armenian: այղըռ (ayġəṙ)
• → Bulgarian: айгъ́р (ajgǎ́r)
• → Macedonian: ајгар (ajgar)
• → Serbo-Croatian: àjgīr／а̀јгӣр

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “aygır”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 361
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آیغر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 43
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Equus”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 473
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آیغر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 599
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “aygır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آیغر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 299