صیغیر

Crimean Tatar

Alternative forms

• صیییر (sıyır)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sïgïr (“cow”); cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (sïγïr, “cow”), Kazakh сиыр (siyr), Tatar сыер (sıyer), Nogai сыйыр (sıyır), Kumyk сыйыр (sıyır), Uzbek sigir, and Turkmen sygyr (“cow”).

Noun

صیغیر (sığır)

1. any adult bovine, like an ox, a bull, or a cow, but especially an ox

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sïgïr (“cow”); cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (sïγïr, “cow”), Kazakh сиыр (siyr), Tatar сыер (sıyer), Nogai сыйыр (sıyır), Kumyk сыйыр (sıyır), Uzbek sigir, and Turkmen sygyr (“cow”).

Noun

صیغیر • (sığır)

1. any adult bovine, like an ox, a bull, or a cow, but especially an ox

   Synonym: (ox) اوكوز (öküz)

Derived terms

• صیغیرتماج (sığırtmaç, “cattle-drover”)
• صیغیرلق (sığırlık, “slow-wittedness, stupidity”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: sığır

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صیغیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 779
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sığır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صیغیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1200