آغر
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- آغیر (ağır)
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *iagïr (“heavy”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰍𐰃𐰺 (ǧir¹ /agïr/), Azerbaijani ağır, Bashkir ауыр (awır), Chuvash йывӑр (jyvăr), Kazakh ауыр (auyr), Kyrgyz оор (oor), Southern Altai уур (uur), Turkmen agyr, Uyghur ئېغىر ('ëghir), Uzbek ogʻir and Yakut ыар (ıar).
Adjective
[edit]آغر • (ağır)
- heavy, weighty, ponderous, having great weight
- slow, not quick in motion, taking a long time
- Synonym: یواش (yavaş)
- (of food) heavy, indigestible, difficult to digest
- (of smell) foul-smelling, fetid, having an unpleasant odor
- (of a person) grave, serious, sedate, not cheerful
- Synonym: دولك (dölek)
Derived terms
[edit]- آغر آغر (ağır ağır, “slowly”)
- آغر باصمق (ağır basmak, “to oppress, as a nightmare”)
- آغر دللو (ağır dilli, “foul-mouthed”)
- آغر هوه (ağır hava, “unhealthy air”)
- آغرجه (ağırca, “somewhat heavy”)
- آغرلتمق (ağırlatmak, “to make heavy”)
- آغرلق (ağırlık, “heaviness”)
- آغرلمق (ağırlamak, “to treat with marks of respect”)
- آغرلندرمق (ağırlandırmak, “to cause or allow to become sedate”)
- آغرلنمق (ağırlanmak, “to become heavy”)
- قولاغی آغر (kulağı ağır, “hard of hearing”)
Related terms
[edit]- آغرشاق (ağırşak) (?)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: ağır
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ağır”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 136
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آغر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 49b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آغر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 23
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gravis”, 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 672
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آغر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 299
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ağır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آغر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 148