صخره

See also: صخرة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَخْرَة (ṣaḵra).

Noun

صخره • (sahre)

1. a single mass or kind of rock; a boulder

Related terms

• قبه صخره (Kubbe-i Sahre, “the Dome of the Rock”)

Descendants

• Turkish: sahre

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صخره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1170

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَخْرَة (ṣaḵra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [sax.ˈɾa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säx.ɾǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säx.ɾǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [säx.ɾǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [säx.ɾǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sæx.ɹé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [säχ.ɾǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	saxra
Dari reading?	saxra
Iranian reading?	saxre
Tajik reading?	saxra

Noun

Dari	صخره
Iranian Persian
Tajik	сахра

صخره • (saxre) (plural صخره‌ها (saxre-hâ))

1. rock, boulder

   Synonyms: سنگ (sang), حجر (hajar)

Derived terms

• صخره‌ای (saxre'i, “rocky”)
• قبة‌الصخره (qobbet-os-saxre, “the Dome of the Rock”)
• قبه صخره (qobbe-ye saxre, “the Dome of the Rock”)

 

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “صخره”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim