آشیری

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• آشرو (aşırı), آشری (aşırı), آشوری (aşurı)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *āĺru (“very much, extremely”), a development of *(i)āĺ- (“to pass, to surpass”), whence آشمق (aşmak, “to pass, surpass”). Cognate with Azerbaijani aşırı.

Adjective

آشیری • (aşırı)

1. excessive, extreme, inordinate, immoderate, exceeding the usual bounds of something, unreasonable or inappropriate in magnitude

   Synonym: فضله (fazla)

Adverb

آشیری • (aşırı)

1. over, beyond, further away than, on the other side of

Derived terms

• آشیری درجه‌ده (aşırı derecede, “overmuch”)
• آشیری دكیز (aşırı deñiz, “overseas”)
• آشیری كتمك (aşırı gitmek, “to exceed limits”)
• طاغ آشیری (dağ aşırı, “beyond the mountains”)
• كون آشیری (gün aşırı, “every other day”)

Descendants

• Turkish: aşırı

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آشری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 61
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “aşırı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 332
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آشوري”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 43a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آشیری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 20
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ultra”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1779
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آشوري”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 249
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “aşırı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آشوری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 125