اسقره

Ottoman Turkish

اسقره

Alternative forms

• اسقاره (ıskara)

Etymology

From Greek σχάρα (schára, “grill, grate”), itself from Ancient Greek ἐσχάρα (eskhára, “hearth”).

Noun

اسقره • (ıskara)

1. gridiron, an iron grate used for broiling meat and fish over coals
2. (by extension) barbecue, the meat and fish broiled on a gridiron
3. grating, a barrier that has parallel or crossed iron bars blocking a passage
4. (architecture) frame of timber used for a foundation in soft ground

Descendants

• Turkish: ızgara
• → Armenian: ըսխառա (əsxaṙa)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ızgara”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2067
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اسقره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 90
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Craticula”, 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 297
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اسقره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 216
• Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 45
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ızgara”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسقره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 111