افشره

Persian

Alternative forms

• افشاره (afšâre)

Etymology

From a Middle Persian term also borrowed in Old Armenian օշարակ (ōšarak) and Arabic أَفْشُرَج (ʔafšuraj) composed *Habí- + the stem of the present verb فشردن (fešordan, “to press”) diminutive *-akah.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔaf.ʃa.ɾa], [ʔaf.ʃu.ɾa]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäf.ʃʊ.ɾä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæf.ʃo.ɹe]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäf.ʃu.ɾä]

Readings
Classical reading?	afšara, afšura
Dari reading?	afšura
Iranian reading?	afšore
Tajik reading?	afšura

Noun

Dari	افشره
Iranian Persian
Tajik	афшура

افشره • (afšore)

1.  juice, pressed out sap
2. (chemistry) extract

Descendants

• → Old Anatolian Turkish: افشره (äfşürä)
  • Ottoman Turkish: افشره (efşüre)

References

• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 259
• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “افشره”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 113b